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Pont on sera promptement de nacelles,
Passer l’armee du grand prince Belgique :
Dans profondrés & non loing de Brucelles,
Outre passés. detrenchés sept à picque.
Far as I can tell, this applies to when the Germans attacked Belgium. This occurred in both world wars, both times Belgium would be captured. The quatrain still sounds like the First World War, as the forts were easily captured in the Second. It is true that in the first war the forts were bypassed by German troops, yet the forts were a serious threat. In the end, the Germans had to reduce each and every fort by gunfire.
Amas s’approche viendront d’Esclavonie,
L’Olestant vieulx cité ruynera :
Fort desolee verra la Romanie,
Puis la grand flamme estaindre ne scaura.
The quatrain depends on the proper translation of Olestant.
Combat nocture le vaillant capitaine,
Vaincu fuira, peu de gens profligé :
Son peuple esmeu sedition non vaine,
Son propre filz le tiendra assiegé.
The last line can be interpreted two ways: Either the son is doing the besieging or the son is convinced the father is besieged by others. I am not certain, but I believe this has not yet been fulfilled.
Un grand d’Auxerre mourra bien miserable,
Chassé de ceux qui soubz luy ont esté :
Serré de chaines, apres d’un rude cable,
En l’an que Mars, Venus & Sol mis en esté.
The last line sounds like a triple conjunction of Mars, Venus and the Sun, without the planet Mercury. This does not happen very often, though it does happen periodically. Yet the feel of the quatrain indicates something else. An interpretation of the line using the old Greco-Roman gods is indicative. Mars, ruling war, Venus ruling lust and the Sun being identity, indicates a year when the people identify with lust and war, something that has not happened for a long time, if ever.
Le charbon blanc du noir sera chassé,
Prisonnier faict mené au trombereau :
More Chameau sus piedz entrelassez,
Lors le puisnay fillera l’aubereau.
There is a good chance this has been fulfilled. The clue to this is in line 2: the prisoner made to be carried in the tumbril. Now, tumbrils are normally dung carts for farmers, though covered two wheel wagons that carried ammunition for artillery pieces were also called tumbrils. But the tumbrils that concern us existed during the French Revolution; they were used to convey prisoners; the last transit would be to Madam La Guillotine.
This said, the part about the camel is curious and indicates a future context. The camel represents Islam and has, as far as I can tell, been used only to refer to the Muslims in the future war, the war we call Armageddon.
The part about the coal of the first line cannot be literal, it has to be symbolic. Coal burns, provides energy and, in our socity, direction. The white coal being dispelled would therefore refer to a time when the “white race,” the European people, lose their power and influence to the darker skinned peoples of Arabia and Africa.
The rest of the quatrain is obviously talking about an individual of some importance. He is obviously a prisoner, carried in a cart or bus with other prisoners – the reference to the Tumbril – and is harmed by a “black camel” which could refer to someone in the French Revolution but also could refer to a future Islamic leader.
The last line is completely ambiguous to me, indicating quite strongly a future context.
L’an que Saturne en eau sera conjoinct,
Avecques Sol, le Roy fort & puissant :
A Reims & Aix sera receu & oingt,
Pres conquestes murtira innocens.
This quatrain has been (erroneously) applied to Charles IX, but he was not crowned when Saturn was in the sign of Aquarius. And while he was crowned in Reims, and ruled France, the city of Aix-au-Chapelle, the city where the Holy Roman Emperors were crowned, had no influence over him. He did not rule Germany.
But when Saturn was in Aquarius, in the same year that it conjoined the sun in that sign, Adolf Hitler was granted the power of the Chancellor of Germany. He would go on to conquer France, ruling both countries. The anointing of line 3 is more symbolic than real, Reims being the place where French kings were crowned, and Aix being the place where the Holy Roman Emperors were crowned. As to the last line, Hitler was directly responsible for the murder of over six million innocent people, mostly Jewish, a little under half of them in the infamous concentration camps.
Un filz du Roy tant de langues aprins,
A son aisné au regne different :
Son pere beau au plus grand filz comptins
Fera perir principal adherent.
This quatrain can refer to nobody else other than Felipe V of Spain. The father, or grandfather, is Louis XIV of France, consequently Felipe had a very different reign. Felipe ruled over vast territories of differing languages; Italy, Spain, the Americas and the Spanish Netherlands – Louis only ruled France and French speaking colonies in the Americas.
Le grand Antoine du nom de faict sordide,
De Phrhyriase à son dernier rogné :
Un qui de plomb voudra estre cupide,
Passant le port d’esleu sera plonge.
The key is the name of the first line. Anthony, or Antoine, of the house of Bourbon. The father of Henri de Navarre, he was at last destroyed by his ambitions and his acquisitiveness. As for his religiousness, all the evidence indicates that he really did not care much. He was as much catholic as he was protestant. He became king of Navarre because he married Joanna III, queen of Navarre and daughter of Henri II of Navarre. He would be reconverted to Catholicism on a purely opportunistic means, losing the love of his wife. Crossing this religious harbor from the Protestant side to the Catholic side would also cost him his life.
Tied to the Guise cause, he would be killed in the battle of the Siege of Rouen. There are claims, unsubstantiable, that he had received a promise of land from Felipe II of Spain or Charles IX of France. In either case, he ended up having to oppose the Protestants who had used to call him champion. In the battle he received a wound that became poisonous, likely an infection. He died of the wound a few days later.
Trente de Londres secret conjureront,
Contre leur roy fur le pont l’entreprise :
Luy, fatailites la mort degousteront,
Un Roy esleu blond, natif de Frize.
A more accurate translation of pont is bridge, or deck. But this definitely refers to the bridge or deck of a ship, not a bridge that joins two land masses; that is why I have translated this to be ship.
While the third line is hard for me to interpret, it could be an error on Nostradamus’ part, the rest of this quatrain so obviously pertains to the Glorious Revolution that it is a foregone conclusion. The thirty of London is most likely one of the conspiracies that arose during the reign of James II. Conspirators were definitely in touch with William of Orange, the native of Frisia who was reputed to be fair haired. He sailed from the United Provinces to England, supposedly on an invitation given by the Immortal Seven (probably just a part of the conspiracy) and landed in Torbey. Within two months, James had fled the country. A Convention was formed, which ruled that James had abdicated by fleeing and throwing the Great Seal into the River Thames. It then, by election, offered the crown to both William of Orange and his wife, Mary who became William III and Mary II of England.
Les deux copies aux murs ne poutront joindre
Dans cest instant trembler Milan, Ticin :
Faim, soif, doubtance si fort les viendra poindre,
Chair, pain, ne viures n’auront un seul boucin.
Note on Translation: I cannot find Ticin, so I selected Ticinum, the ancient name of Pavia, which seems to make sense. It is part of the Lombardy region, the capital of which is Milan. Another interpretation would be the Ticino River, in the same area – this alters the quatrain in a minor detail but does not change who or what it is for. Knowing Nostradamus, it would not surprise me to find that he meant both Ticinum and Ticino.
In the War of the First Coalition, in 1796, General Bonaparte was sent into Italy to deal with the armies of Austria and Sardinia. He prevented them from joining up and dealt with them one at a time. He forced Sardinia to come to terms and make peace, while he captured the city of Milan and besieged Mantua, defeating several Austrian armies sent to relieve the city, which eventually capitulated for the normal reasons – hunger, thirst, and lack of food.