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Avant venue de ruine Celtique,
Dedans le temple deux parleméront
Poignard coeur d’un monté au courfier & picque,
Sans faire bruit le grand enterront.
I cannot be certain, but I cannot make it fit anything other than the death of Henri III of France. Yet it is an imperfect fit according to my information. The Celtic Ruin is the acceptance by France of the Protestant king, Henri de Navarre. The third line fits because Henri was assassinated by Jacques Clement, a fanatical monk who stabbed Henri. And, because of the turmoil of the Religious Wars and the desire to not let Paris know that he was dead, he was quietly buried.
That said, it is the parley in the temple that confuses me. That the two Henri’s would meet each other and discuss their differences before they made common cause is understandable, but whether this occurred in a temple is not included in the information I have.
Sept conjurés au banquet seront luire,
Contre les trois le fer hors de navire:
L’un les deux classes au grand fera conduire,
Quant par le mail Denier au front luy tire.
Note on Translation: Theophilus de Garenciéres had a different translation. He considered par le mail to be a code for Palle-Malle. His translation of the last line: When in the Palle-Malle the last one shall shoot him in the forehead.
I leave this to the reader to decide and to figure out.
Le successeur de la duché viendra,
Beaucoup plus outre que la mer de Tosquane:
Gauloise branche la Florence tiendra,
Dans son giron d’accord nautique Rane.
I almost smiled when I saw the mention of Frogs. I know Nostradamus knew about the cock (coq) as being a symbol of France, but I did not know he knew about that more bastardized term, the French Frog, which is often used to represent Frenchmen. Yet while it is nowadays bastardized, it has an interesting history, for the frog was the symbol of the Carolingian line of kings.
The Grand Duchy of Tuscany was the successor to the Duchy of Florence. The house of Medici had ruled Florence in one way or another since the 1430’s. In 1532, Alessandro Medici became the Duca di Florence. His successor, Cosimo, would be elevated in 1569 by Pope Pius V to Il Granduca di Toscana, the Grand Duke of Tuscany.
The house of Medici would govern Tuscany from Florence until the last of the Medici, Gian Gastone di Medici, died out in 1737. It then passed to what was known as the House of Hapsburg-Lorraine. It actually had very little connection to the House of Hapsburg, being more of the House of Loraine which produced the duc’s de Lorraine and Guise. But the house claimed descendency from the Carolingian kings, especially Charlemagne, so searched for various places to establish itself. It succeeded in Austria after Maria Theresa died. It also succeeded in Tuscany. In these two lands it was known as the House of Hapsburg-Lorraine.
It is true that the house tied itself to Austria more than to France. But both were committed to the continuing survival of the Papal States. Since the French could only cross to Rome via ship, there was, at the very least, a naval agreement with France, accounting for the Nautical Frog of line 4.
Le gros mastin de cité deschassé,
Sera fasché de l’estrange alliance,
Apres aux camps avoir le cerf chassé,
Le loup & le Ours se donront defiance.
The mastiff is the largest dog in the world. Here, it represents Great Britain; while the British considered their dog to be the British Bulldog, pictures of the time made it huge and often incorporated the head of Winston Churchill – a very large dog indeed.
The city of line 2 can only refer to Prague. Chamberlain had sold out at Munich and had encouraged Daladier of France to sell out as well. When Hitler invaded the rump state of the Czech Republic in 1939, the city of Prague was denied to British foreign officials.
Britain was vexed in the early days of the war by the strange alliance of the Nazis and Soviets. This strange alliance, between anti-Nazi Communists and the anti-Communist Nazis, allowed Hitler complete freedom in the east. Because of this freedom, he was able to move almost all his forces to the west and shatter both the French Army and the British Expeditionary Force in France. One of England’s great worries was an Axis pact that included the Soviet Union, a pact geared to tear up the dominions and eventually conquer Britain.
But it was not to be. After Poland (the stag) was devoured by the Nazi and Soviet forces, Adolf (noble wolf) Hitler and the Soviet (bear) Politburu looked at each other long and hard. Stalin was cautious; his armies had been exposed as inefficient by the 1940 war against Finland and while ruthless he was exceedingly pragmatic. The longer Britain held out against the Germans, the longer Stalin was determined to buy time and build up his armies. For his part, once Hitler realized that he could not capture Britain, he abandoned plans to invade the isles and foolishly turned his full attention to the Soviet Union. It is true that tensions increased: the Soviets did not trust the Germans while the Germans wanted to devour the Soviets. Yet, in the end, though the Soviets would be blind to the build up of German forces, they constaltly protested numerous German violations of Soviet airspace and disparaged Ribbentrop’s attempts to lull the Soviets into an apparent agreement to destroy the British, preferring their own agenda over that of Hitler’s.
Souz ombre faincte d’oster de servitude,
Peuple & cité l’usurpera luy mesmes :
Pire fera par fraulx de jeune pute,
Livré au champ infant le faulx proesme.
The key to this quatrain is to determine who “he” is in the second line. There are three possibilities I can think of: Louis XVI, Charles X and Napoléon III. All three were deposed due to revolutions that removed servitude.
A clue is in the third line, the deceit of the young prostitute. While the traditional prostitute sells herself sexually for money, the true prostitute is one who sells out their ideals and beliefs for anything, whether it be for money or power or love. With this in mind, Louis-Philippe, who believed in absolute monarchy yet “prostituted” himself by pretending to truly believe in the principles of the Revolution, constitutional monarchy and the bourgeois, springs to mind.
With this clue, the quatrain needs only the fourth line to be complete. The 1830 revisement of the 1814 Charter fulfills the fourth line, completing the quatrain.
Au roy l’Augur le chef la main mettre,
Viendra prier pour la paix Italique :
A la main gauche viendra changer le scepter
De Roy viendra Empereur pacifique.
By tradition, kings rule with the scepter in their right hand, emperors with the scepter in their left. This sounds like the prophesied French King of the future. Once the war is over, after having been king in battle, he will become emperor in peace. This could mean that he is a descendant of both the royal Capétien house of Bourbon and the imperial house of Bonaparte. This is, of course, just a thought.
The Augur was a religious official in the days of the Roman Empire with the responsibility of predicting certain events. Therefore this could refer to a pope or some other high official, or it could refer to one who makes a prediction or a prophecy. Of course, it could refer to a pope or high official who makes a prediction or a prophecy.
Du Triumvir feront trouvez les os,
Cherchant profont thresor ænigmatique :
Ceux d’alentour ne seront en repos,
De concaver marbre & plomb metallique.
There are several quatrains that seem to deal with an archeological find of great significance, most likely that of an early or important Roman. Nostradamus mentions a Triumvir, this could therefore be the bones of one of the members of on of the ancient Roman Triumvirates. Regardless of whom it is, this quatrain has to await the future to reveal it.
Sera laisse le feu vif mort caché,
Dedans les globes horrible espouventable,
De nuict à classe cité en poudre lasché,
La cité à feu, l’ennemy favorable.
The part about death being hidden inside globes indicates either nuclear or bacteriological warfare weapons. The fact that the city was reduced to powder demands nuclear.
This quatrain is an obvious description of a nuclear bomb. The shape of the bomb, a globe, precludes the long slender Little Boy bomb that was dropped on Hiroshima. Therefore, this has to refer to the Nagasaki explosion, which was destroyed by a Fat Man bomb that looked like an elongated globe with fins.
The nation that caused this to happen was the United States. Great Britain’s Winston Churchill and America’s Franklin D. Roosevelt had already agreed that if Hitler was defeated when the bombs were developed they would be used on Japan. President Truman, the man who controlled the bombs, gave the final go. Nagasaki was the secondary target, but the explosion was as described. The city was reduced to dust, especially in the area immediately underneath the explosion. The heat was extremely high and the fireball soared into the stratosphere.
As for the last line, the enemy, is a double meaning. The first meaning of enemy, the United States and Britain who were enemies of the city, were definitely favorable to the use of the bomb. They were planning the invasion of Japan through Operation Downfall, the attack of the isle of Kyushu, the southernmost of the three main isles, in October 1945; with a followup attack on Hokaido, the main isle, in January 1946. Estimated casualties were about two million Americans and a million British and Commonwealth troops. But what is surprising is that the other meaning of the word enemy, the Emperor of Japan who was the enemy of the invaders, was also favorable to the results of the bomb. As the Japanese were able to correctly predict that the first isle attacked would be Kyushu, they had prepared Operation Ketsugo, the all-out defense of their southermost main isle, stripping everything everywhere else for it's defense. The defense was fearsome with over 12,000 kamakazi aircraft to sink the transports, the entire army and almost the entire civilian population armed and ready to fight to the death. Estimated expected casualties were about forty million Japanese. Both sides realized what the plans for the other side were yet prepared for what they felt was going to be a fantastically destructive battle. Now, with the dropping of two bombs, the chance that all of this could be avoided with the loss of much less life seemed like a godsend to them. The Emperor jumped at the chance and did what he could to end the war. Total casualties from the two bombings were, ultimately, about four hundred thousand, less than one percent of just the expected overall Japanese casualties from the planned invasion.
Jusques aux fonds la grand arc demolve,
Par chef captif l’amy anticipé :
Naistra de dame front face chevelue,
Lors par astuce Duc à mort attrape.
The second and fourth lines have multiple interpretations. The captive anticipates a friend, or he is held captive by the anticipated friend. The duke either causes death due to his smart actions, or he dies due to the smart actions of another. The first and third lines are relatively easy to interpret, being translatable only one way.
I leave this to the reader to figure out.
Un chef Celtique dans le conflict blessé,
Aupres de cave voyant siens mort abatre :
De sang & Playes & d’ennemis presse,
Et secourus par incognus de quatre.
This sounds like a specific event that has most likely been fulfilled, though I cannot be certain. A leader of France is attacked near a cave or cellar. It looks like his attacker has four accomplices. The leader survives, but he sees many of his people hurt by the attack through indiscriminate killing. Probably explosives are used, due to the number of people hurt, though modern combat weaponry could do the same thing.
This could be modern terrorist attacks, but the use of thrown bombs is an old tactic, resulting in pretty much what the Quatrain describes. I will have to leave this to the ingenuity of the reader to solve this one.
