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Le saint empire viendra en Germanie,
Ismaelites trouveront lieux ouverts :
Anes vouldront aussi la Carmanie,
Les soustenens de terre tous couverts.
There has been no “holy” empire since the Holy Roman Empire collapsed during the Napoléonic Wars, and that empire was centered in Germany. It is also highly doubtful that any new “holy” empire would be born in Europe. Therefore, this has to come from the place where religious ferment is strongest, the Middle East.
The only curious part is the third line, Carmanie. The obvious translation, Carmania, makes no sense; it is a province of Iran. Iran, with its extreme religious fervor and the leadership by the Mullah’s, seems to indicate it will be one of the three brothers of the future. Why would they want what they already have? Unless, of course, there is some sort of revolt. But I feel that it refers to something else, something we will not understand till the time the quatrain is fulfilled.
Le grand empire chacun au devoir ester
Un sur les autres le viendra obtenir,
Mais peu de temps fera son regne & estre,
Deux ans aux naves se pourra soustenir.
The empire concerned is a naval power; the last line makes that certain. One will come into the empire, and his navies will not be able to sustain him after two years.
The closest this came to being fulfilled was Benito Mussolini. After he entered the Second World War on the 10th of June, 1940, his navies sustained him in Libya for about two years. But after that, the Americans were also involved and his empire quickly collapsed around him. He was arrested by order of King Victor Emmanuel II, on the 25th of July, 1943.
The only problem with this is that Italy was an empire before Mussolini came into power. They had conquered Ethiopia and had recently conquered Albania, a place to launch their aggressive intentions in the Balkans.
This must refer to the future.
La faction cruelle à robbe longue,
Viendra cacher sous les pointus poignars
Saisir Florence le duc & lieu diphlongue
Sa descouverte par immeurs & flangnards.
The long robes refers to Napoléon Bonaparte. While he did much good, most notably the Code Napoléon, he basically hid behind the sharp blades of war, referred here as the pointed dirks. In the War of the Sixth Coalition, it was all he had. The duke is Ferdinand III, Grand Duke of Tuscany, which incorporated Florence within its borders. The diphthongizing refers to the long and windy talks of the Congress of Vienna at the conclusion of the War of the Sixth Coalition, it is also where the immatures were. As I cannot translate flangnards, I cannot determine who they are, but I am of the opinion they were also tied to the Congress of Vienna. Most commentators have the original as flaugnards, which translates as sycophants and certainly fits.
Gauloys qu’empire par guerre occupera
Par son beau frere mineur sera trahy,
Par cheval rude voltigeant trayneta,
Du fait le frere long temps sera hay.
The brother-in-law is Jean-Baptiste Jules Bernadotte. He married into the Bonaparte family by marrying the sister of the wife of Joseph Bonaparte. In a way, that made him a somewhat (minor) brother-in-law to Napoléon.
Napoléon got him seated as the heir to the Swedish throne. While the throne was held by the aged Charles XIII until 1818, it was Bernadotte who was the true ruler of the country, ruling in the name of Charles, but making his own decisions.
In 1815, Napoléon had fled Elba and had taken up his scepter in Paris. He called for his family monarchs to join with him. Joachim Murat, king of Naples and brother-in-law to Napoléon through his marriage to Napoléon’s sister Caroline, would join Napoléon in his effort, but Bernadotte took Sweden into war against Napoléon. Napoléon never forgave him.
Puysnay royal flagrand d’ardant libide,
Pour se jouyr de cousine germaine,
Habit de femme au temple d’Arthemide:
Allant murdry par incognu du Marne.
Marne is one of the departments of France. It was named after the river of the same name. While it did not exist in the time of Nostradamus, he would know the spelling of it as the French simply used the name of the river, the spelling of which Nostradamus did know.
The royal does not have to be a king or a direct prince of the king. He or she just has to be a direct descendant of a king.
Artimis was the Greek goddess of the wild. The temple of Artimis is likely a place dedicated to the wild and natural, a modern naturalist organization much like the Audubon Society or Greenpeace.
The quatrain indicates a royal descendant who burns with lust for his cousin, the daughter of his aunt or uncle. Very likely she is associated with a naturalist organization, though an act of rape could occur in a naturalist building. The murderer, likely of the royal, occurs in the department of Marne.
Apres le Roy du soucq guerres parlant
L’isle Harmotique la tiendra à mespris,
Quelques sons bons rongeant un & pillant
Par tyrannie à l’isle changeant pris.
Note on Translation: There is no soucq, as far as I can tell. However, it sounds a lot like the modern sud, which is south. If this is accurate, and I believe it is, then the quatrain is fulfilled.
The quatrain can only refer to Oliver Cromwell. After Charles I was executed, Charles II was the acknowledged king of England, Scotland and Ireland. Cromwell was “king” by force only in England, and that only because of the strength of the New Model Army. He was going to have to impose his rule on the rest of the isle.
His first target was Ireland, the Harmonic Isle because its symbol is the harp. He had decided to reduce that land of “Papist idolaters” to the will of God fearing Puritans. Cromwell’s forces were murderous in the Siege of Drogheda, where he allowed his army to massacre thousands. Though future British atrocities would completely sever the two islands, it was Cromwell who showed the way. The Siege of Drogheda and the subsequent sack of Wexford would give Irish the memory of the “Curse of Cromwell.”
Cromwell’s time in control was a literal tyranny. He was completely hated by the Irish, despised by the Scots and disliked by the English. Only the New Model Army supported him, this he dared not disband. Changes in land distribution occurred. The monarchy was permanently weakened, a price for the eventual restoration. And, indirectly, the foundation for the modern Parliamentary party system was established, though Cromwell would never have supported it.
L’assemblee grand pres du lac de Borget,
Se ralieront pres de Montmelian,
Marchant plus oultre pensifz feront proget
Chambry, Moriane combat sainct Julian.
Chambéry and Montmélian are in Southeastern France. Lake Bourget, or Lac du Bourget, is in the Savone department of France. The only place I cannot find is Moriane, but it is a proper name so it is likely the name of a person. Saint Julian may refer to Saint Julien in France, Saint Julians on Malta, or Sankt Julian in Germany.
Amour alegre non loing pose le siege,
Au sainct barbar seront les garnisons,
Ursins Hadrie pour Gaulois feront plaige,
Pour peur rendus de l’armee aux Grisons.
Henri is likely the future leader from France, maybe a descendant of the Bourbon lineage, who leads France and Europe in battle towards the end of the future horrific war of the Anti-Christ. The barbarian saint is a reference to the saints of Islam, here it refers to the leader of the Ishmaelite forces that will be then at their height of strength and expansion. It is almost certain that this leader will hypocritically claim the Caliphate, trying to unite all of Islam under his banner. The Grisons, or the Graubünden, are in Eastern Switzerland, during this time, it will refer to the Eastern forces as this land could be under Islamic occupation.
Premier fils vefue malheureux mariage,
Sans nuls enfans deux isles en discord,
Avant dix huict incompetant eage,
De l’autre pres plus bas sera l’accord.
This one was obvious even to the French Court, which is odd because it first appeared in print after the event happened. Mary, Queen of Scots, was the wife of Francis II. She was also swayed very strongly by the Duc and Cardinal de Guise, which Catherine de Medici considered to be nothing but trouble. Unfortunately for Mary, Francis died before he could attain his majority at age eighteen. Her feud with the Queen Mother, Catherine de Medici, impelled her to leave France and return to Scotland. That she did, putting both the Britannic and Irish isles into turmoil. She would go on to several marriages; the last one most likely forced on her, and eventually be forced to abdicate the throne.
It is true that this quatrain was published some time after the event, but the fact that it was known to the French Court beforehand indicates that Nostradamus had a small book of the quatrains that would be fulfilled very soon.
Le jeune au regne Brittanique,
Qu’aura le pere mourant recommandé,
Iceluy mort LONOLE donra topique,
Et à son fils le regne deamandé.
Note on Interpretation: Two things are certain. First, this occurs after the Act of Union which created the British nation. Before the act, there were two nations on the Britannic isle, England and Scotland. After the Act, there was only one nation, Britain. Second, the specifics of the quatrain demand that the younger, of whom this quatrain is obviously about, will be granted power or authority by the blessing of the elder, yet almost immediately LONOLE will oppose it and the younger will be forced to withdraw.
From this, as far as I can tell, the only possible interpretation has to be the reign of Edward VIII, of England. LONOLE here becomes LONDON but also refers to all of Britain, completing the quatrain. Edward, the younger, received the blessing of governance from his father, George V. But before the reign of a single year, his proposed marriage to the American divorcee, Wallis Simpson, prompted such hostility and resentment among the British people that he was forced to abdicate the throne.