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Ceux dans le isles de long temps assiegés
Prendront vigueur force contre ennemis :
Ceux par dehors mors de faim profligés,
En plus grand faim que jamais seront mis.
The key to this quatrain is the relationship between two events, the event of the first two lines and the event of the last two lines. Remembering that Nostradamus said that each quatrain would refer to either one event, one place, or one time, it is obvious that this is two different places and two different events. Therefore, it had to be one time. World War II fulfills this dramatically.
The first two lines cover the isles, the British Isles. After France fell, the British were alone, besieged by both the U-Boat menace and by the Luftwaffer. But the British took very vigorous action, devising and using weapons to sink the U-boats and contesting the German command of the air with their smaller, but highly efficient Royal Air Force. By the end of the Battle of Britain, Britain ruled the sky’s over England and was starting to send its bombers to bomb German targets. This vigorous action would not end until Germany was defeated.
The second two lines refers to the concentration camps where people were systematically exterminated. Gas chambers like the ones found in Birkenau were the exception to the rule. The general rule of the camps was to feed the prisoners as little as possible, if they were fed at all, so they would die slowly and in agony. For most of the prisoners, the hunger never ended.
Le bon viellard tout vif enseveli,
Pres du grand fleuve par faulce souspecon :
Le nouveau vieux de richesse ennobli,
Prins au chemin tout l’or de la rancon.
The first line could refer to a literal or a metaphorical burial.
Quand dans le regne parviendra le boiteux
Competitieur aura proche bastard :
Luy & le regne viendront si sort rogneaux,
Qu’ains guerisse son sait sera bien tard.
As far as I can tell, no lame monarch has attained to the throne of any kingdom, at least not since Pausanius took over the Aegid throne of Sparta in 409 BCE. And it is rare for a lame person to attain to the rule of even a republic. Yet one lame man attained to prominence of the most powerful country on earth: Franklin D. Roosevelt, who was rendered lame by a bout with Polio (or Guillain–Barré syndrome as some believe) in 1921, attained the Presidency of the United States in 1932, a position he would hold onto until his death in 1945.
His competitor was Adolf Hitler. Adolf’s father, the first Hitler, was given not his fathers name but his mothers maiden name at his birth: Schickelgruber. This fact declared to the entire world that Alois was a bastard child, born out of wedlock. Adolf was therefore a near bastard.
There are actually two ways to refer to the last two lines, both work in this situation and refer to either Hitler or Roosevelt.
Concerning the first interpretation: During the time of the Third Reich, Hitler became a very mangy fighter, as did the German Wehrmacht. Greater and greater glories opened up before them. However, they received their first check in 1940 over the skies of Britain. The second check would come in 1941 on the snowy planes of Russia.
By 1943, enough sense had returned to Hitler that he knew he had made a terrible mistake. He wanted to be able to walk his beloved Bavaria in peace and quiet. But it was too late. Churchill, Roosevelt and Stalin were building their might, slowly crushing the German war machine with the explicit purpose of grinding Hitler into the ground. Hitler would lose his mind trying to keep the struggle going, his madness, likely born of this realization, would eventually consume him and the German people.
The second interpretation is not so inspired, but it works well enough. Roosevelt and the American forces became very mangy fighters in their own right, respected and feared by the Germans. They got to be so good that Germany and the German forces of Hitler could not recover before first Roosevelt, then Hitler, died.
Naples, Florence, Favence & Imole,
Seront en termes de telle facherie :
Que pour complaire aux malheureux de Nolle,
Plainct d’avoir fait à son chef moquerie.
Note on Translation: I learned that Nolle is part of an old Latin legal phrase nolle prosequi that means not to pursue. I am therefore of the opinion that Nolle means not. It is also a proper name. For these reasons, I have not translated it as others have – Nola. That said, I did find a Noli in Italy.
With all the options and possibilities of this quatrain, I find I cannot offer an adequate interpretation.
Pau, Veronne, Vicence, Sarragousse,
De glaisues loings terroirs de sang humides :
Peste si grand viendra à la grand gousse,
Proche secours, & bien loing les remedes.
This does look uncomfortably like chemical warfare, though I cannot rule out biological warfare. In either case, the aid, death, is near, though remedies that cure are far away. The places listed are in Spain and Italy, maybe France as well. French participation depends on which Pau is named. This bodes ill for the Mediterannean Coast of Western Europe.
En Germanie naistront diverses sectes,
S’approchant sort de l’heureux paganisme,
Le coeur captif & petites receptes,
Feront retour à payer le vray disme.
Nazism and Communism both found their beginnings in Germany, the one under the rantings of the Adolf Hitler, the other under the somewhat more sophisticated and learned teachings of Karl Marx and Frederic Engels. But it is the Nazi teachings that are the prime teachings here. For thirteen years, the Nazis held power. Their teachings, a fusion of morality influenced by the old Germanic religion, could be called a happy paganism. But history is demonstrating the ultimate worthlessness of both approaches. Nazism died due to the bloodiness of its own approach and the resulting fury of the Second World War. Communism is dying under its own weight.
Le tiers climat soubz Aries comprins,
L’an mil sept cens vingt & sept en Octobre,
Le Roy de Perse by ceux de Egypt prins :
Coflict, mort, perte: à la croix grand opprobre.
This quatrain is most notable for providing a clue to how Nostradamus interpreted future history and wrote the quatrains.
During this time Egypt was a part of the Ottoman Empire. The sultan of that time, Ahmed III, did take territory from the Persians, who were very ineffectively lead at the time by Ashraf Khan Hotaki. However, the Persian leader was not captured, instead he beat the Ottoman Empire in a battle near Kermanshah. This lead to peace between the two nations in September of 1727. So in this case, Nostradamus was wrong. Yet the peace was shameful to the cross because it freed the Ottoman to focus on the west and gave them much territory they had wanted.
And yet, there was truth to the claim about the sultan after all, though not in the way expected. Just before the battle, the Ottoman’s had stated that it was their declared intention that they were going to forcibly restore the earlier Sultan, Soltan Hosein, to the Iranian throne. Soltan Hosein had been the sultan until he was deposed in 1722 by Mir Mahmud Hotaki. Mahmud Hotaki had allowed the old sultan to live after Hosein had acknowledged Hotaki the true Sultan. Ashraf Khan Hokati did likewise, yet upon hearing the avowd claim of the Ottoman Empire, Ashraf Khan responded by cutting off Soltan Hosein’s head and sending it to the Ottomans. So in a way the Sultan of Persia was captured by those of Egypt, though not in the way expected.
Nostradamus was too accurate here for this to be a wild, random musing, as opponents of him constantly insist. Yet it is definite that he was incorrect in a few details. There is only one logical explanation: He saw parts of it and made an interpretation that fit the facts as he saw them. It is very likely he saw Soltan Hosein as the Iranian Sultan. It is also likely he saw Soltan Hosein’s head in the hands of the Ottoman Sultan, Ahmed III. Whether he saw more, we do not know, but it is likely he did not observe Soltan’s removal from power by the House of Hokati. His conclusion, written in the quatrain, is logical from this, and I must admit that even I, had I Nostradamus’ power, might have come to the same conclusion had I seen it this way.
Not exactly a perfect hit, but not a complete miss either. And very informative in how we understand what Nostradamus actually saw.
Le chef d’Escosse avec six d’Alemagne,
Par gens de mer Orientaux captifs :
Transver seront le Calpre & Espaigne,
Presant en Perse au nouveau Roy craintif.
The chief of Scotland is also the chief of England. Of course, if some of the quatrains about the sinking of England do occur, it could be that Scotland is a separate entity at this time. Regardless, the key to the timing is the last line. This has to be during the great Islamic push to conquer the world.
L’ordre fatal sempiternal par chaisne,
Viendra tourner par order consequent:
Du port Phocen sera rompue la chaisne,
La cité prinse, l’ennemi quand & quand.
Operation Dragoon was the attack of Southern France by allied forces against Nazi occupied France. Read the explanation of Quatrain 82 (this century) for an explanation. One of the goals of Operation Dragoon was the swift capture of the port city of Marseilles. This one time Phoenician city held a major German garrison. The city was swiftly taken. The enemy retreated quickly and those that were not killed or captured fought on.
Du regne Anglois l’indigne deschasse,
Les conseillier par ire mis à feu :
Ses adherans iront si bas tracer,
Que le bastard sera demy receu.
This has to refer to the English Civil War and its aftermath. The worthyrefers to Charles II of England. His father and councilors were destroyed during the English Civil War. The partners were the members of Parliament; they “crept so low” that they eventually accepted the rule of the “bastard” Cromwell. It was half received because while Cromwell had the power of the king, he did not have the form of one.