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Mys tresor temple citadins Hesperiques
Dans Iceluy retiré en secret lieu,
Le temple ouvrir les liens fameliques,
Reprens rauys porye horrible au milieu.
Hesperian is more likely Italian because Hesperia is the Greek word for Italy according to the Aeneid, though it has been used in one quatrain to refer to the Americas. Beyond this, I have no idea.
Cris, pleurs, larmes viendront avec coteaux
Semblant fouyr donront dernier assault
L’entour parques planter profons plateaux,
Vifs repoulse & meurdrys de prinsault.
I dislike my translation of prinsault, but I could find no other and it is what Theophilus de Garenciéres had.
De batailler ne sera donné signe,
Du parc seront contraint de sortir hors,
De Gand lentour sera cogneu l’ensigne,
Qui fera mettre de tous les siens à mors.
Gand is French for Ghent, which is in modern day Belgium. I must leave this to the reader.
La naturelle à si hault hault non bas
Le tard retour fera marris contens,
Le Recloing ne sera sans debarz
En empliant & perdant tout son temps.
Though a few people have tried to force the word Recloing into something else, I must agree with Theophilus de Garencieres when he said it was a forged word. I am forced to leave this to the reader to decipher.
Le vieil tribung au point de la trehemitde,
Sera presse captif ne deliver,
Le veuil non veuil le mal parlant timide,
Par legitime à ses amys livrer.
I cannot be certain, but this does sound like Marshal Petain, the Hero of Verdun in the First World War. He was old when he achieved high office, and then only succeeded because he was the only one illustrious enough to gather the threads of a defeated nation and defeatist cartel to make peace with Hitler.
The impression formed by his friends and enemies is that of an old man partially not in touch with reality. He was timid and vacillating, changing his mind as people, especially the pro-Nazi Lavel, used their influence on him. Lavel especially wanted Petain to join the Axis forces. But Petain held onto his own agenda, keeping the Vichy government neutral. In this, he had aid from the pro-Allied general Weygard and the strongly neutral Minister of Marine Jean-François Darlan. The captive, Vichy France, was not delivered to the Nazis by Petain’s government.
But who were the “friends?” We have only one clue, and with that we will have to rest. On November 8th, the Allies landed a predominately American force onto North Africa. When Petain handed the official French reply about the landings to the American representative, Mr. Pinckney Tuck, it is said that he gave him a knowing tap on the shoulder.
Grand roy viendra prendre port pres de Nisse
Le grand empire de la mort si en fera
Aux Antipolles posera son genisse,
Par mer la Pille tout esvanoira.
The last line indicates the end of piracy. As it still exists, this must refer to the future. The great empire of death must refer to the future Empire of the Anti-Christ. Just what the heifer refers to, I am uncertain, though the Antipodes of the empire is the opposite, likely the great king of the first line.
Pieds & Cheval à la seconde veille
Feront entrée vastient tout par la mer,
Dedans le poil entrera de Marseille,
Pleurs, crys, & sang, onc nul temps si amer.
The sea totally wasted has never happened before. Even in great naval combats, the sea itself did not suffer. Here, Nostradamus indicates that the sea does suffer, and greatly. It is only in modern times that we have the weapons capable of such devastation. We also have the materials to destroy the sea through negligence or by manmade disaster. The so-called “eighth and ninth continents," one in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, the other in the middle of the North Atlantic, are masses of plastic waste drifting over large areas. We can and are also destroying the oceans in the name of extracting oil for consumption. This therefore refers to the future. The quatrain is self-explanatory.
De brique en marbre seront les murs reduits
Sept and cinquante annees pacifiques,
Joie aus humains renouvé Laqueduict,
Santé, grandz fruict joy & temps melifique.
This is normally attributed to Louis XIV. The argument normally goes that he took a small brick building started by his father, Louis XIII and changed it to marble, building the marvelous marble construct we know today as the Palace of Versailles. They also argue that during his absolute reign, there was no internal dissension B Louis saw to that by gathering all the nobility to Versailles and keeping them entertained and occupied with meaningless titles B like the Royal Bedchamber Warmer. He also had major canal projects built that facilitated trade inside the kingdom. Versailles rebuilt into marble, internal peace during his reign, and major water projects.
It sounds good, except for one thing: the time of his personal rule was only 54 years, not the 57 years of the quatrain. If you count the peace as starting from the end of the Second Fronde (the Treaty of the Pyrenees which ended it and the war with Spain was signed November 7, 1659), would be a period between 55 and 56 years, not the 57 years that Nostradamus indicates. It is true that if you count from the beginning of his reign to the time of the beginning of the War of the Spanish Succession you have 58 years, but some of those years were tore apart by the violence of the Fronde. Finally, it must be admitted that the wars of Louis were, in the end, disastrous to the nation.
I am convinced that this is an unfulfilled quatrain referring to the future.
Cent foys mourra le tyran inhumain,
Mys à son lieu scavant & debonnaire,
Tout le senat sera dessoubz sa main,
Faché sera par malin themeraire.
Adolf Hitler fulfills this quatrain quite readily. Hitler had been very shrewd as he made his earlier conquests. With great foresight he had plotted out the conquests of Austria, Czechoslovakia, Poland, Denmark, Norway, the Lowlands and France. But his foresight did not apply to Britain, the Soviet Union or the United States, the three nations that would bring him down. He thought that the Soviet Union would be an easy conquest, that Britain would eventually seek a pragmatic peace, and that the United States had no stomach to fight. After the height of the extension of the Nazi Empire, everything went wrong. Hitler could not sleep well. He grew irritated. He constantly blew up, furious at his generals, at his soldiers, even eventually at the people he professed to love, the German people. He even wished he had not launched the war, wanting to be able to simply wander through his beloved Bavarian countryside. But it was not to be. All three of his opponents were much more learned, two of them (Roosevelt and Stalin) were much more debonair looking. The Reichstag, the Senate of Germany, had become a pawn in the hands of Hitler.