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La gent de Dace, d’Angelterre & Polonne
Et de Bohesme seront nouvelle ligue :
Pour passer outtre Hercules la colonne,
Barcins, Tyrrens dresser cruelle brigue.
Dacia is Romania. Bohemia is the modern day Czech Republic. England and Poland are obvious. Barcelonans are Spanish. Tyrrens refers to the northern Italians, hence Italy. The Pillars of Hercules is Gibraltar. It looks as if the Northern Europeans are planning something, maybe making a plan to go into northern Africa. However, the Southern Europeans hatch a cruel plot that prevents this.
Un Roy sera qui donra l’opposite,
Les exiles eslevez sur le regne :
De sang nager la gent caste hyppolite,
Et florira long temps soubs telle enseigne.
This is an interesting quatrain. The first line indicates a king who does the opposite, but of what? The second line indicates that exiles will be raised over the realm. Both of these lines seem to indicate Napoléon and the return of the Emigrants whom Napoléon allowed back under the condition that they serve him.
With this, the last two lines are in agreement. During the French Revolution the French people became the first to perform mass conscription. The poor literally made up the bulk of the army, swimming in the blood as it were. And they thrived doing that for a very long time.
La loy du Sol, & Venus contendens,
Appropriant l’esprit de prophesie,
Ne l’un l’autre ne seront entendus,
Par Sol tiendra la loy du grand Messie.
The last line clearly identifies the Sun with Christianity. In this case, Venus has to stand for Islam, mainly due to the 72 horais (female virgins) promised to any Muslim who dies spreading the word of Allah. It seems that their struggle assumes an intensity that seems prophetic, but neither side will be understood.
As the Christian/Islamic struggle has not yet occurred, I must place this in a future context.
Du pont Euxine, & la grand Tartarie,
Un roy sera qui viendra voir la Gaule,
Transpercera Alane & l’Armenie,
Et dans Bisance lairra sanglante Gaule.
Euxine refers to specific regions of the Black Sea. The Euxine Abysmal Plane, on the bottom of the Black Sea, the Euxine Sea (an alternate name for the Black Sea) or the Euxine-Colchic Forest, located along the southern border of the Black Sea, from southern Bulgaria through much of modern day Turkey. Most likely, it refers to the Bosporus, where Byzantium is located.
Alane is probably a name, though it could be an anagram for a place; its meaning is something lined up with something else. Edgar Leoni indicates that this refers to the Alani, a people who resided north of the Caucasus Mountains. Though my research indicates that a western branch of the Alani were tied to the Vandals, the Germanic tribe that eventually settled in North Africa and is renown for sacking Rome, Leoni’s interpretation places this squarely in the North Caucasus region, which is near the Black Sea and not far from Armenia.
The Tartary is several mountain ranges. Called The Tartary in Europe; it stretched from the Caucasus Mountains all the way to Southeast Asia.
The interpretation seems to indicate that a future leader will forcibly gain control of the Caucasus and Black Sea region – this future leader will eventually come to the Gaulic region of France and Northern Italy.
De la felice Arabic contrade,
Naistra puissant de loy Mahometique :
Vexer l’Espaigne conquester la Grenade,
Et plus par mer à la gent Lygustique.
From what Nostradamus has written elsewhere, this sounds like the future: An Arab who is extremely knowledgeable of Koranic law is born who will move across Africa to conquer Grenada from Spain and harass the Ligurian coast. Grenada was the Muslim nation that resided on the Iberian peninsula. The Ligurians are the French and Italians. The happy Arabic country is unknown to me.
Par le trespas du tresviellart pontife,
Sera esleu Romain de bon aage :
Qu’il sera dict que le siege debiffe,
Et long tiendra & de picquant ouvrage.
When Pius XI died he was 81 years old, almost 82. By the living standards of his day he was indeed elderly. The one elected was Eugenio Pacelli, who was 62 years when he assumed the throne of St. Peter. His papacy during the Second World War is even today considered quite controversial: he ended the ban on Action Française, an anti-Semitic organization; had a private meeting with Ante Pavelic who tried to forcibly convert people to Catholicism; claimed that French anti-Semitic Laws were not against the doctrine of the Catholic Church; established diplomatic relations with Imperial Japan in 1942 and declined to publicly denounce the violence of the Nazis against the Slovakian Jews in 1943. For these reasons he is considered to be a very dishonorable pope. But he also performed some courageous deeds, the morality of which could not be faulted: he condemned the Nazis when they attacked Poland; refused to retreat in this position when Benito Mussolini strenuously objected to this treatment of his German ally; employed Jews in the archives of the Vatican; condemned the Slovakian racial laws that forbade marriage between Jews and non-Jews and protected the Jews of Rome in both Vatican City and the monasteries of Rome while the Germans controlled the city. He died in 1958 at the age of 82, having reigned a long time.
Istra du mont Gaulser & Aventin,
Qui par le trou adventira l’armee :
Entre deux rock sera prins le butin,
De sext mansol faillir la renommee.
An interesting quatrain, one of the times when Nostradamus was trying to phonetically describe a name. He succeeded too. There is no Mount Gaulsier that I know of. Aventin most likely stands for the Aventine hill, i.e. Rome. Mansol is curious, it is also located in Quatrain 27 of the 4th Century and Quatrain 29 of the 10th century, likely tying those two quatrains together with this one. The six is obvious: The pope who reigned during the time the Montgolfier brothers first created their invention was Pope Pius VI, who reigned in Rome from 1775 to 1799.
This quatrain refers to the Battle of Fleurus in 1794. The Montgolfier brothers had invented the hot air balloon and had succeeded in sending a man into the sky in 1783. Eleven years later, a balloon was used to scout out the layout of the land and to warn the French of the dispositions of the enemy. Fleurus was a French success, the opposing Austrian forces were routed, and the pressure on France relieved. Balloons would become a staple of French forces for many fights, sending information through tubes to the ground commanders, information they would so desperately need.
The inevitable consequence was the eventual capture of Pius by Republican forces.
Oh, and as for the fact that Nostradamus wrote Mont Gaulser instead of Mont Gaulfer, well, this could be an error on the part of Du Rosne the first publisher of this quatrain. Of course, if Nostradamus wrote Gaulser, we can forgive him a phonetic error as he likely heard the name once and did his best.
Du l’aqueduct d’Uticense, Gardoing,
Par le forest & mont inaccessible :
En my du pont fera tasché du poing,
Le chef Nemans qui tant sera terrible.
I am completely confused by this one, and I freely admit it. I cannot figure out Uticense. Gardoing is obviously altered to rhyme with poing of the third line. Nemans is most likely Nimes, so I put that here, but I am not certain. This could refer to a modern aqueduct, though I would think that the Romans who controlled so much would build many aqueducts throughout their empire. I must leave this one to the reader.
Au chef Anglois à Nymes trop seiour,
Divers l’Espaigne au secours Aenobarbe :
Plusieurs mourront par Mars ouvert ce jour,
Quant en Artois Saillir estoille en barbe.
In line 3, Mars is not to be taken in any astrological context, but as the Roman God of War! Artois is the name of the ancient French that occupied the Northern part of France and part of the Netherlands (and Belgium). The bearded star is normally considered to be a comet. The rest of this, I cannot fathom, mainly because Bronzebeard has not yet been named. See Quatrain 45 of this century, which this most certainly ties into.
Par treste rase viendra bien mal eslire,
Plus que sa change ne porte passera :
Si grand fureur & raige fera dire,
Qu’a feu & sang tout sexe trenchera.
The line about the shaved head is the key to this quatrain. That it definitely refers to Napoléon Bonaparte is beyond doubt: the shaved head referred to Napoléon’s closely cut head of hair. Though in modern days a short haircut is the norm, in the days of Napoléon it was the exception, one of the things he was renown for. And as for the event this is talking about, out of all of the disasters only two seem to fit the portal part of the quatrain. But, while it could refer to Napoléon’s invasion of Egypt (where all the men eventually were defeated) I think it refers better to Napoléon’s invasion of Russia, which saw barely one out of ten men return from that cold northern country. Many thousands of Russians also died defending their country, so the sex (male) of Europe was definitely cut down by this one act.