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Paris conjure un grand meurtre commettre,
Bloys le sera sortir en plain effet :
Ceulx d’Orleans vouldrôt leur chef remettre,
Angiers, Troye, Lâgres leur feront un messait.
This quatrain was fulfilled during the phase of the French Religious Wars known as the War of the Three Henri's. The three leaders were Henri III of France, the official head of the nation who also lead the royalist faction as well as the group known as the Politiques, Henri Bourbon de Navarre, king of Navarre who headed the Huguenot faction and Henri I, Duc de Guise who was the head of the Catholic League. Henri de Navarre was supported by the various germanic Protestant leaders as well as Elizabeth of England while Henri de Guise was supported by Philip of Spain. Henri III had no foreign support but as he was the official head of France he had tremendous power.
This phase had started out with Henry III allied with Henri de Guise against Henri de Navarre. Henry III sent an army to attack Navarre which was routed. Henri III however realized that an invasion from the German states and from Switzerland was advancing, he quickly lead another army and prevented a juncture of their forces, forcing the Swiss to retreat. Guise managed to take out the German forces. King Henri had made the key decision and had forced the Swiss out, assisting his ally Guise in his inevitable victory. However, Henri de Guise used the power of the various churches to claim that the king had been behind the Swiss advance before he bought them off. The Catholics were furious with their king. Guise demanded more lands for himself, the king refused and forbade him to enter Paris. Guise ignored the king and, turning against King Henri, entered the city. Though this would normally have meant Guise’s immediate execution, a Spanish supported uprising forced the king to flee to Blois.
Henri, Duc de Guise, was becoming all powerful. He had complete control of Paris and the nations Catholics were starting to clamor for him to depose of Henri III and assume the crown of France. Henri III, opposed to the Huguenots, was now threatened by the power that Henri de Guise wielded. In some ways, the Duc was more powerful than the king. He had to be quickly disposed of.
Henri de Guise plotted the assassination of Henri III while in Paris, but Henri III succeeded in killing Guise first when Guise was summoned to Blois.
After news of the assassination spread, Orleans abandoned Henri III and joined Henri de Guise’s organization, the Catholic League. The cities of line 4 did Henri III a great disservice. They abandoned their support for Henri III, all but Troyes joining the Catholic League. Troyes remained neutral, which was also a disservice to Henri III.
En la Campaigne sera si longue pluie,
Et en la Pouville si grand siccite :
Coq verra l’aigle, l’aesle mal accomplie,
Par Lyon mise sera en extremité.
The timing of this quatrain is what matters. If this is the German eagle, then this was most likely fulfilled during the Second World War. If this is the American eagle, then this will occur in the future, during the Islamic attempt at conquest. Campaigne is in Italy, along the west coast. Pourville-sur-mer is a tiny community along the north coast of France. Lyons is along the Rhone river.
Quand le plus grand emportera le pris,
De Nuremberg, d’Auspurg, & ceux de Basle,
Par Agripine chef Frankfort repris,
Traverseront par Flamans iusques en Gale.
The clue is line 4: Flanders is the Dutch Lowlands and Belgium. Only twice was it attacked as preparation for invasion into France, both times the attack came from Germany. The attacks occurred during the First and Second World Wars. The first two lines determine which attack it refers to. When applied to the First World War the first two lines are nonsensical. But they make perfect sence when applied to the Second World War.
Adolf Hitler was the great one who achieved complete rulership over Germany. The cities of line 2 refer to the Weimar Republic that Hitler took over and disposed of. I am uncertain what line 3 means, unless it is a reference to the Night of the Long Knives which cemented Hitler’s control of Germany. But line 4 is the infamous attack into the lowlands, along with the attack through the Ardennes Forest which completely severed the French and destroyed them.
L’un des plus grands fuira aux Hespaignes
Qu’en longue plaie apres viendra saigner :
Passant copies par les hautes montaignes,
Devastant tout & puis en paix regner.
Francisco Franco is the one mentioned here. He ran away from his official duty in Spanish Africa and flew into Spain where he quickly roused clerical, military and pro-monarchial support against the Republic. The republic was in the process of being communized, a process secretly supported by Joseph Stalin and the Politburo of the Soviet Union. Franco got aid from Mussolini and Hitler, and then the Republic gained unofficial support from members of other nations, like the Americans and French who enlisted in foreign brigades. The war was devastating and savage, maybe setting back Spanish development by years. But once it was over, Franco was able, through cunning, craft and subtle diplomacy, to keep Spain out of the Second World War. Spain was at peace for the rest of Franco’s life.
En l’an qu’un oeil en France regnera,
La court sera à un bien fascheux trouble :
Le grand de Bloys son ami tuera,
Le regne mis en mal & doubte double.
The single eye refers to Henri II, the great one of Blois. After the deadly joust with his friend the Earl of Montgomery, Henri had only one good eye. Francis the Dauphin was still in his minority. The struggle between Mary Queen of Scots and Queen Catherine de Medici had begun, not to end until Francis II died.
Montauban, Nismes, Avignon & Besier,
Peste, tonnerre & gresle à fin de Mars :
De Paris pont, Lyon mur, Montpellier,
Depuis six cent & sept XXIII pars.
Note on originals: The Rigaud and subsequent editions has the last line different: Depuis six cents & sept vingts trois parts. After six hundred seven twenties (or scores) three parts. The first two editions, the Bonhomme and Du Rosne, have it as I have written it.
This seems to be one of the rare times when Mars represents the month, not the God of War or the planet. All of the places are in France.
Sept fois changer verrez gent Tritannique,
Taintz en sang en eux cent nonante an :
Franche non point par appuy Germanique,
Aries doubte son pole Bastarnan.
The kingdom of Britain came into existence in 1707. Before that time, there were the two kingdoms of England (which included Wales and the Isle of Man) and Scotland. 290 years later would be 1997, so that would be the earliest that the seventh change could have occurred.
That said, we can still give a list of changes. Important changes that occurred during this time. Of course, the original act of union is merely the starting point of the possible changes, not an actual change itself.
1776 plus 290 years give us the year 2066, so if I am right, a seventh change will occur about this time.
The blood and violence mentioned in line 2 is supported by the following explanations: The Union of Britain to Ireland occurred due to violence in Ireland, much of it fermented and created (some inadvertently, some deliberately) by the English. The end of the Union between Great Britain and Ireland occurred because of British mismanagement and the arising of Sin Fein which fought the British until the main part of Ireland declared its independence. (It still struggles in Northern Ireland.)
The creation of the second empire occurred when Britain took over management of India from the East India Company, due to the violence that kept occurring there. The breakdown of the empire and the creation of the Commonwealth was the most peaceful change, but it was a direct result of the fury of the Second World War and by various colonies wanting independence from the mother country.
Several of the changes involved German or Prussian support or opposition. Hessen mercenaries were used to supplement the regular British troops during the American Revolution. The Second world War saw Britain opposed to Germany, fighting with everything it could. Relations with France during this period were interesting, alternating between overt hostility, stand-aside neutrality and, towards the world wars, open friendship. The friendship occurred when Britain doubted Germany (i.e. overt hostility).
The bastarnian pole can only refer to the area of Bastarnae. This was an ancient tribal group that existed in the region of what is today the southern Ukraine. Likely it here refers to the Soviet Union, or Russia.
Aupres du Rin dos montaignes Noriques,
Naistra un grand de gens troop tard venu,
qui defendra Saurome & Pannoniques,
Qu’on ne scaura qu’il sera devenu.
To say that Adolf Hitler and his world view was too late is perhaps an exaggeration, but it is certainly correct. Hitler belonged to the 15th and 16th century when such a viewpoint was a powerful argument, before the nations were unified and locked into their respective positions. Also, his anti-Semitism was more of that time than the 20th century. Even though the princes and dukes of those centuries would have been hard pressed to support him, it is certainly true that they would have been much more sympathetic to Hitler’s goals than the 20th century was.
Hitler was born in Braunau am Inn, Austria-Hungary, on 20 April 1889, in the northern Alps (the Noriques mountains) along the Danube river, not far from the source of the Rhine. His eventual rise to power in Germany saw him defending Poland and Hungary from a Soviet takeover in 1944-45. And, true to the last line, nobody knew what happened to Hitler’s corpse for a long, long time. In fact, we still don't. The recent revelation that the KGB had taken a few pieces of the Fuhrer’s skull and jawbone was believed by many to be Adolf’s, though it was eventually proved to be the bones of a woman, most likely Eva Braun Hitler’s.
Barbare empire par le tiers usurpé,
La plus grand part de son sang mettra à mort :
Par mort senile par luy le quart frappé,
Pour peur que sang par le sang ne soit mort.
The key is the first line: the Barbarian Empire. It was a reference to the Barbary coast where the Barbary pirates raided Europe for several centuries. Since the Turks ruled the Barbary coast, this is a reference to the Turkish Empire.
Algeria had already been conquered by the French in campaigns starting in 1830 and extending to 1848 when the Second French Republic was formed. Under Napoléon III, Algeria was fully conquered and was a French colony, when the Third French Republic began there were efforts to fully integrate Algeria into the Republic. Because of raids from Tunisia and Morocco, the French attacked those two Barbary territories as well, incorporating them into their newly expanding african empire. Settlement into the newly conquered territories was strongly encouraged, many Frenchmen settled in the three colonies. There were even Italians who settled in Tunisia.
It seemed that the future of the once Barbary kingdoms was now certain. However, the Second World War ended these plans. During the Fourth French Republic (after the overthrow of the Nazis), the French control over the region disintegrated. It would inevitably force De Gaulle, who started the Fifth French Republic, to hold a plebiscite that resulted in the independence of Algeria. The independence of Morocco and Tunis occurred soon after.
Par toute asie grand proscription,
Mesmes en Mysie, Lysie & Pamphylie :
Sang versera par absolution
D’un jeune noir remply de felonnie.
The first line may not apply to all of Asia, but it certainly will apply to the entire Islamic world. The young black one is not necessarily black according to his skin color or hair or clothing, though this may also be true. However, he is black because of his evil. Somehow, Islam gives him complete absolution, he can do whatever he wants. When one considers how people like Mussolini and Hitler claimed to be Christians yet did whatever they wanted to do after they got the following of their people, that a supposed Muslim will get the following of the Islamic world is not too difficult.