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Par le fureur d’un qui attendra l’eau,
Par la grand raige tout l’exercite esmeu :
Chargé des nobles à dix sept basteulx,
Au long du rosne tard messagier venu.
The key is the seventeen boats full of nobles. This is one event I do not know ever happened. It is true that many nobles fled France during the Revolution, but I do not know of any instance where seventeen boats were filled with them.
The closest I can come to is the Siege of Toulon. The royalists were ably supported by the British and Spanish fleets. However, the Republicans had a very skilled artillery officer, one Captain Napoléon Bonaparte, who was able to requisition a large force of one hundred cannon from around the area. His plan to take the position known as Little Gibraltar proved to be the key to the battle. It succeeded, the British evacuated certain specific strongpoints as a result, making it easier for the Republicans to gain key forts. With the fall of the forts, the British and Spanish decided to evacuate. The only problem is that I do not know how many ships had royalist evacuees. It could be 17, but it was likely more.
Pour le plaisir d’edict voluptueux,
On mesler la poyson dans l’a loy :
Venus sera en cours si vertueux,
qu’obfusquera du soleil tout à loy.
Admittedly several commentators view this as the Edict of Pointers, but Henri III’s supposed homosexuality, being more of Eros than Venus, does not agree with line 3. This has to be the Edict of Nantes. The king was Henri IV, a notorious womanizer who had multiple mistresses. This was an edict that in heart and soul he wanted to make, mainly because he was more Calvinist than he was Catholic. Nostradamus’s supposed arch Catholicism here comes into play. The edict, which liberalized the law by allowing Protestants freedom to worship as they saw fit, would be poison to Catholic minds; accordingly, this dimmed the glory of his reign. Not all Frenchmen liked the edict. Henri IV would be killed by a fanatical Catholic.
Persecutee sera de Dieu l’Eglise,
Et les sainctz temples seront expoliez :
L’enfant la mere mettra nud en chemise,
Seront Arabes aux Polons railez.
The surprising key to line 4 that places this with the French Revolution and Napoléonic France comes from the fact that the mother, or stepmother, of Mahmud II, the Grand Turk during the Napoléonic Wars, had been in fact a French lady who was very pro French in all ways. She gave her son French lessons and taught him to respect France. Add the fact that Napoléon created the Duchy of Warsaw which recreated, under French influence, the nation of Poland, and the quatrain is complete.
The child is, of course, Louis XVII, the dauphin who is recognized by the monarchists as the successor of Louis XVI. He was forced to testify against his mother, which basically removed all her clothing as it were. She was exposed in that way to the wrath of Robespierre.
During the Revolution, and later during the Empire, the French were very irreligious. They were more irreligious during the Republic than during the Empire, but even Napoléon felt it prudent to put the church in its place. He authorized the sacking of specific churches, especially that of the Vatican, when he captured Pius VII.
Note that the quatrain does not say that the Arabs will be allies of the Poles, but will rally to the Poles. Under Mahmud II, the Turkish Empire kept making friends with the French. France was the defacto government of almost all of Europe, including the Grand Duchy of Warsaw, the reincarnated Polish state, so in trying to be friendly with France they were in essence trying to be friendly with all of Europe, including Poland. It was not till the later years of Napoléon, before the Great Russian invasion, that the Turks would turn against the French.
De sang Troyé naistra coeur Germanique,
Qu’il deviendra en si haulte puissance :
Hors chassera gent estrange Arabique,
Tournant l’eglise en pristine preeminence.
Don Juan was the son of the Hapsburg emperor Carlos I of Spain (also Charles II of the Holy Roman Empire), who also had some Italian blood in him, so the claim that he came from Italian blood is true. The reference to the Trojan blood is a reference in the Aeneid where a Trojan, Aeneus, brother of Hector, was the forefather of Romulus, the founder of Rome. It is true that the Capetian dynasty of France also claims to have Trojan blood in them; knowing the interrelationships between the various royal houses in those days, it is likely that Carlos was also a descendant of Hugh Capet.
Don Juan was born in Rosenburg, Bavaria, yet he did not know who his father was until Felipe II was on the throne. Though denied royal privileges, he became a confident of the Spanish Court and Captain General of the Spanish Fleet. His position, while below royalty, was higher than any duke in the Spanish realm.
Taking the Mediterranean as his own area to patrol, he hounded the Turkish fleet until Soiliman the Magnificent assembled a huge Turkish Fleet to destroy him. Backed by a union of ten European nations, Don Juan lead the European forces against the Turks and at the Battle of Lepanto, the outnumbered Christians defeated the Turks, sinking almost every Turkish ship. This victory elevated the power of the Papal See in the waters of the Mediterranean.
Though the Turks did rebuild their fleet very quickly, the loss of so many experienced sailors was telling. The balance of naval power had shifted from the Turks, who contented themselves with finishing the conquest of Cyprus and consolidating their naval position.
Montera hault fur le bien plus à dextre,
Demourra assis sur la pierre quatree :
Vers le midy posé à la senestre,
Baston tortu en main, bouche serree.
This could be tied in to the quatrain where the future king reigns first as a king, then later as a peaceful emperor. The right hand and left hand aspect where the scepter would reside are indicative of this. However, I have my doubts.
En lieu libere tendra son pavillon,
Et ne voudra en citez prendre place :
Aix, Carpen, l’isle, volce, mont Cavaillon,
Par tous ses lieux abolira la trasse.
With the possible exception of Volce, all of the places mentioned are cities in southern France, near or along the Mediterranean coast. I found two Volces, but they are in Slovania, so I doubt either of them are the correct Volce. Consequently Volce remains as an unsolved name.
Note: Most commentators translate mont Cavaillon as Mount Cavaillon. But while there is a city called Cavaillon, there is no mountain called Cavaillon. When I examined the location of Aix, Cavaillon and Carpentras on a map, Montpellier, which was in the same region and quite distinct, suggested itself as a full name for mont. So, I used it. Of course, an alternate is Montélimar, which is north of Carpentras yet still in the same general area. The isle is most likely Corsica.
Without knowing Volce, I am uncertain whether this refers to World War II and the Vichy government of Pétain, all traces of which were eliminated after the end of the Second World War, or whether it refers to something else.
Tous les degrez d’honneur Ecclesiastique,
Seront changez en dial quirinal :
En martial quirinal flaminique,
Un roy de France le rendre vulcanal.
The Quirinal hill was named after Quirinus, which was the sacred name of Romulus. One of the seven ancient hills of Rome, it is the sight where the Italian Royal Palace (now the Italian Presidential Palace) is located. This gives the quatrain an Italian flavor.
The only ambiguous word is dial. My thinking is that it was short for the Italian word dialetto, which is dialecte in French and dialect in English; this would make the second line In the martial Romanl dialect.
No matter what, this has to refer to the end of the Risogimento, the unification of Italy. The end deals with the last piece of the nation of Italy that was left out, Rome and the Papal States, was finally incorporated into the Italian nation.
In 1870, France was undergoing the fires (Vulcan) of the Franci-Prussian War. They had been the buarantors of Papal independence since the Risogimento had began in 1859. Now, out of desperate necessity, the French troops were withdrawn. This allowed the Italian forces to march in and take over, changing the government from the Ecclesiastical Court to the King of Italy. Everyone in Italy was happy, everyone that is except the Papacy which was deprived of its temporal honors and powers.
Les deux unis ne tiendront longuement,
En dans trere ans au Barbara satrappe :
Aux deux costez seront tel perdement,
Qu’on benira la barque & sa cappe.
I cannot figure this one out. It is not Hitler, though there were thirteen years since he became the real power of Germany (presidential election) till the time he was killed, he shared power with nobody. It does not refer to Napoléon; he was in power for fifteen years, ten as emperor. The only one it could refer to is the reign of William III and Mary II of England, William reigning for 13 years, but in this case who is the Barbarian Satrap? As I am not that familiar with Ottoman or Iranian history, I must delegate this to the reader to figure out.
La sacree pompe viendra baisser les aisles,
Par le venue du grand legislateur :
Humble haulsera vexera les rebelles,
Naistra fur terre aucun émulateur.
This is Nostradamus’ most positive quatrain dealing with Napoléon. Nostradamus was quite willing to condemn the man for his faults, and he found many. But he also was aware of Napoléon’s strengths and greatness. This quatrain depicts Napoléon’s greatness.
The key is the second line. That it refers to Napoléon is beyond a doubt. In 1804, desiring to complete the legal revolution started in the Revolution; Napoléon convoked a commission of four eminent French Jurists. The Revolution had produced a few changes, as well as the great document Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen, but the laws of France were still feudal, the promise of the Revolution unfulfilled. With Napoléon at the helm, the commission rapidly did their work and created the first standardized civil code for France. Originally called the Code Civil des France, it soon acquired, first unofficially and later officially, the name Code Napoléon, one of the most influential legal codes ever to be written.
The sacred pomp is the pomp of the Church. It is also the pomp of the religious culture of the Revolution, the Cult of Reason and the Cult of the Supreme Being. Napoléon caused both to be lowered. True he re-established the Catholic Church in France, but he also kept tight reigns on it. While Nostradamus did condemn Napoléon for what he did to the Pope, he also gave him respect for restoring the Catholic Church and ending the other cults.
The third line is also accurate, and in some ways admirable. The promotions Napoléon authorized was not based on aristocracy but on merit. Many people of common birth were able to rise through the ranks; one of them, Ney, was able to advance all the way to Marshal. And Napoléon was harsh to the rebellious. He supported the principles of the Revolution, but did not believe in revolution for the sake of revolting, or restoring the older, discarded ways.
Finally, several people have tried to emulate Napoléon. Though some have done well, none have had the dash or the problems needed to truly make a second Napoléon. The circumstances that would allow a Napoléon were unique to France in the late 18th Century, a situation that is long gone.
La sacree pompe viendra baisser les aisles,
Par le venue du grand legislateur :
Humble haulsera vexera les rebelles,
Naistra fur terre aucun émulateur.
This is Nostradamus’ most positive quatrain dealing with Napoléon. Nostradamus was quite willing to condemn the man for his faults, and he found many. But he also was aware of Napoléon’s strengths and greatness. This quatrain depicts Napoléon’s greatness.
The key is the second line. That it refers to Napoléon is beyond a doubt. In 1804, desiring to complete the legal revolution started in the Revolution; Napoléon convoked a commission of four eminent French Jurists. The Revolution had produced a few changes, as well as the great document Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen, but the laws of France were still feudal, the promise of the Revolution unfulfilled. With Napoléon at the helm, the commission rapidly did their work and created the first standardized civil code for France. Originally called the Code Civil des France, it soon acquired, first unofficially and later officially, the name Code Napoléon, one of the most influential legal codes ever to be written.
The sacred pomp is the pomp of the Church. It is also the pomp of the religious culture of the Revolution, the Cult of Reason and the Cult of the Supreme Being. Napoléon caused both to be lowered. True he re-established the Catholic Church in France, but he also kept tight reigns on it. While Nostradamus did condemn Napoléon for what he did to the Pope, he also gave him respect for restoring the Catholic Church and ending the other cults.
The third line is also accurate, and in some ways admirable. The promotions Napoléon authorized was not based on aristocracy but on merit. Many people of common birth were able to rise through the ranks; one of them, Ney, was able to advance all the way to Marshal. And Napoléon was harsh to the rebellious. He supported the principles of the Revolution, but did not believe in revolution for the sake of revolting, or restoring the older, discarded ways.
Finally, several people have tried to emulate Napoléon. Though some have done well, none have had the dash or the problems needed to truly make a second Napoléon. The circumstances that would allow a Napoléon were unique to France in the late 18th Century, a situation that is long gone.
Logmion grand bisance approchera,
Chassé sera la barbarique ligue :
Des deux loix l’un l’estinique lachera,
Barbare & franche en perpeuelle brigue.
None of the originals wrote L’Ogmion, so I admit I am stretching it a bit. Ogmion is, I believe, a deliberate mispelling of Ogmios, an ancient Gaulish deity. Known as “The Impressive One” he is considered to be a deity of eloquence. It looks like this future French leader will be impressive and eloquent. He may need to be to take on the Arab world after they have invaded Europe. The strange law is, of course, the Islamic law.