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