According to Umberto Eco Goedsche in his novel Biarritz plagiarized Alexandre Dumas Joseph Balsamo as it says in the article and Eug ne Sue s Les myst res du peuple But I think I ve never heard that Goedsche directly borrowed from Joly The common theory is that the motif of the conspirators secret meeting on a cemetary which Goedsche took from Dumas and Sue after having been published independently from the rest of Goedsche s novel was merged with material from Joly s satire to create the infamous Protocols Weblinks I removed the first weblink as it leads to a personal blog which despite its title contains nothing about Goedsche Retcliffe whatsoever