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Euge, Tamins, Gironde & la Rochele,
O sang Trojen! Mort au port de la flesche :
Derrier le fleuve au fort mise l’eschele,
Pointes feu grand meurtre sus la bresche.
The Trojan blood refers to the French Monarchy. The kings of France had a shadowy claim to being descendants of the Trojan prince Aeneas. Tamins is in modern day Switzerland. Gironde is the river. La Rochelle is a French commune.
Mabus pous tost alors mourra, viendra,
De gens & bestes une horrible defaise :
Puis tout à coup la vengence on verra,
Cent, main, soif, faim, quand courra la comete.
The key to this is in the first line, the interpretation of Mabus. Until we know who or what Mabus is, this quatrain will be indecipherable. Also, the true interpretation of tost in this case. I interpreted it as being tort, harmed or wronged. But I admit, I am likely wrong.
Gaulois, Ausone bien peu subjuguera,
Pau Marne & Seine sera Perme l’vrie :
Qui le grand mur contre eux dressera,
Du moindre au mur le grand perdra la vie.
Note on originals: The Bonhomme edition has the first word of the 2nd line to be Po, which seem to not make sense. The other editions have the first word Pau, which I have used.
Ausonia is Southern Italy. Pau is a city in southern France, not far from the Spanish border – it was the capital of Henri de Navarre during his struggle to gain the French Throne as Henri IV. The Marne and Seine are in France. The Gaulish lands are France and Northern Italy.
This quatrain refers to Alessandro Farnese, the duca di Parma and the captain general of Hapsburg forces in the Spanish Netherlands. The rivers meet at Paris, the place of his intervention in the war between Henri de Navarre and Charles, duc de Loraine, while Pau indicates his opponent, Henri de Navarre.
The first line refers to the ultimate outcome of the intervention – Ausonia represents Hapsburg rule which failed to win in France. The second line refers to the time when Parma relieved the city of Paris from the siege that Henri was leveling against it. The drink was a drink of bitterness that Parma was forced to receive. While in Paris, he learned that the side he was aiding was not as capable or as in control as his master, Felipe II of Spain, wished. Then, when he retreated to the Spanish Netherlands, Henri hounded him the whole way. The third line refers to Parma’s last campaign in France, he was wounded in the hand near Caudebec. The hand infected and Parma, wounded by a common souldier, died a slow death, as the last line indicates.
Seicher de faim, de soif gent Genevoise,
Espour prochain viendra au desaillir :
Sur point tremblant sera loy Gebenoise,
Classe au grand port ne se peult acuillir.
Most commentators interpret Gebenoise to be Cevennes. Maybe this is true, but I cannot confirm this. It is interesting that Theophilus de Garenciéres, who read Nostradamus as a child in school (it made excellent teaching material in France, being, as it were, written in the older French) also did not claim it was Cevennes; he translated the third line to read: The Gebenna law will be upon a quaking point.
I leave this to the skill of the reader.
Le parc enclin grande calamité,
Par l’Hesperie & Insubre fera :
Le feu en nef, peste & captivité,
Mercure en l’Arq, Saturne fenera.
Hesperia is a Greek term meaning western lands. It comes from Virgil and is the Greek word for Italy. Insurbia is the Milan region of Italy. Mercury can travel through Sagittarius the Archer any time between October to January. Saturn fading is either Saturn in its detriment, in the signs of Cancer or Leo, or Saturn in its fall, in the sign of Aries.
This planetary combination occurred multiple times, repeating multiple times within an approximately 30 year cycle. During these repeating astrological phenomena thera have occurred several possible solutions during the French Revolutionary/Napoléonic Wars, the Second World War. But I can make none of them fit.
I leave this to the reader to figure out.
Par grans dangiers le captif eschapé,
Peu de temps grand fortune changée :
Dans le palais le peuple est attrapé,
Par bon augure la cité est assiegée.
When he left the Isle of Elba off the Italian coast, Napoléon faced grave dangers. He faced the dangers of the British navy who, if they had captured him, would have made him a prisoner. He also faced the danger of the Allied nations uniting against him, which they certainly did. Once he landed on French soil, he faced the grave danger of being stopped by the very French forces he sought to bring back to his side. But he faced all this with his usual aplomb and succeeded. For a short time his fortunes were changed. Yet they were not changed enough. The palace is France. Though the French were enthusiastic about his returning, they were weary from the long years of war he had heaped upon the nation. It was besieged by a union of four nations. And after Waterloo, the French, exhausted and utterly tired of Imperial glory, received the invading armies of the British and Prussians with joy.
Le blonde au nez forche viendra commettre,
Par le duelle & chassera dehors :
Les exilés dedans sera remettre,
Aux lieux marins commettant le plus fort.
If, as some have claimed, Louis XVIII is the fair-haired one, then this quatrain would most likely refer to him; he definitely has the aquiline nose.
The duel would refer to his struggle with first the Revolution and later to Napoléon. With the help of the Allied forces, which were primarily reactionary, he finally won – Napoléon and his family were banished. The exiles that Napoléon had not restored were restored by Louis. Finally, Louis was able to strengthen the importance of the ports. After the downfall of Napoléon and the end of the British blockade, this was almost automatic.
De l’Aquilon les effors seront grands,
Sus l’Ocean sera la potte ouverte :
Le regne en l’isle sera reintegrand,
Tremblera Londres par voile descouverte.
Note on Translation: voile descouverte has several possible translations. Voile can be a veil (like a bridal veil), sail (on a sail boat) or a thin material used on a dress. Descouverte can be discovered, detected, found or realized. Because descouverte rhymes with ouverte, it was likely used instead of a word that was more literal. Discovered sails is the traditional translation, but I have opted to use another translation that to me seems to be more descriptive.
This can only refer to the restoration of the British Monarchy. The monarch, Charles I, had been executed years before, and his son, Charles II was now the uncrowned king. However, Cromwell, backed and impelled by the power of the New Model Army, governed the isles. Inevitably he died and the power passed to his son Richard. Yet the leadership of the army was revealed to be vested not in the officers but in the rank and file who deposed Richard and forcibly dissolved a Parliament. Yet the army wanted a civil backing, so they recalled the Rump Parliament which they had deposed of just six earlier. This restored parliament did the will of the army, yet the army under Lambert and Fleetwood broke the parliament yet again.
The New Model Army started to fracture and break apart. What caused this schism was the army of Portsmouth under the arch republican Arthur Haselrig. He took the army that was stationed there and converted it to his cause. He then converted another army sent by Lambert and Fleetwood to deal with him, then marched on London. London trembled in anticipation of yet another occupation. But all this did was to reveal the schism in the rank and file of the New Model Army. Almost to a man, trembling in their realization, the army finally decided to live and die with Parliament. They restored the Rump Parliament they had broken just a month or so before. This decision occurred around December 1659. However, they were still opposed to a royalist return, something almost the entire nation was now fervently wishing for. It is at this time that the quatrain opens.
The power to the north was the Scottish branch of the New Model Army. This army was lead by George Monck, a man of impeccable attributes. He had subdued Scotland years earlier without the anomisity that Cromwell’s actions in Ireland had caused. Patiently he had waited, waiting to see the direction the nation truly wanted. In January 1660, he acted. Barely holding his army together, he marched south with great energy and vigor. He had promised to join up with General Fairfax in York by a certain date, he kept his word. There he received an invitation from the Rump Parliament to take the army to London. He did so, catching a wavering Fairfax and stripping him of all power. Yet the Rump Parliament was opposing the will of the nation, which was becoming decidedly royalist. Instead of dissolving the Rump, Monck decided to dilute the republican tendencies, which he did by reinviting the members of Parliament who had been forcibly removed by Pride’s Purge. This restored parliament felt that it had no real authority and called new elections.
The new parliament was decidedly royalist. In vain did Lambert and Haselrig struggle. Haselrig was arrested and locked in the Tower of London. Lambert, also confined to the Tower, escaped and raised a military effort against the new parliament. The effort became a fiasco; Lambert’s men deserted him and he was quickly apprehended by Monck. With this debacle, the end of the Republic was in sight. Parliament busied itself with considerations about such things like the velvet on the King’s coach.
Finally, Charles II was officially invited to return (the gate was opened) and a large sum of money was authorized by Parliament for that purpose. The fleet, long hostile to Charles, was sent to transport him to London. Riding in London, wearing the newly restored (revealed to the eyes of the people) cloth of royalty, Charles was received with joy by almost all the people. He was duly crowned and the monarchy was restored.
Le roy Gauloys par la Celtique dextre,
Voiant discorde de la grand Monarchie,
Sus les trois pars fera fleurir son sceptre,
Contre la cappe de la grand Hierarchie.
This is a quatrain with multiple keys that require to be fit together with the utmost precision. The Gallic King would have to come from the ancient region of Gaul and reign over three areas. Only William of Orange fits the requirements. He was born in the Hague, was the Prince of Orange from birth, was raised in ruled in the United Provinces (modern day Netherlands and Belgium combined) as the Stadtholder (which, while powerful, was basically the equivalent of a civil servant), fulfilling the part about Gaul. The Great Monarchy could only be the monarchy of James II of England. Upon his ascension to power in Britain, he ruled the three areas that the British king ruled: England, Scotland and Ireland. His enemy was Louis XIV, the great Hierarchy, who disliked William’s ascension to the throne of Britain (England and Scotland). William used his new power against the house of Capet, taking the English into war.
Le dard du ceil fera son estendue,
Mors en parlant, grande execution :
La pierre en l’arbre, la fierc gent rendue,
Brut, humain monstre, purge expiation.
The dart is obviously a rocket, this places the quatrain squarely from the 1940's onward. The human monsters that have appeared were Hitler and Stalin; none have been on their level. The great execution could be fulfilled by either of them, Hitler did the holocaust, Stalin the murder of millions. It is the third line that determines which one it is. While I cannot figure out the “stone in the tree,” the part about “the fierce people returned” can only refer to the return of the Prussian military, which places this squarely on the shoulders of Adolph Hitler. It was Germany, after all, that invented the military rocket with the V-2. And the last line refers to the horrors of the 2nd world war brought on by Hitler.