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Le second chef du regne Dannemarc
Par ceux de Frise & l’isle Britannique,
Fera despendre plus de cent mille marc,
Vain exploicter voyage en Italique.
The Rigaud edition has d’Annemarc. I chose, however, to go with the earlier Du Rosne edition, which had Dannemarc, which is the old French for Denmark. Frisia is the region that runs along the coast from the western end of the Netherlands to Denmark. The British Isle and Italy are obvious.
According to the quatrain, a Danish prince, with the aid of the Netherlanders, northwestern Germans and the British, will attempt to sail to Italy. Note that Nostradamus claims that it is a vain attempt, i.e., the attempt will fail. The sum involved, over a hundred thousand marks, indicates that this is a long while ago. However, I cannot find the actual event.
I am forced to leave this to the ingenuity of the reader.
A logmyon fera laissé regne,
Du grand Selin qui plus fera de faict :
Par les Italies estendra son enseigne,
Regi sera par prudent contrefaict.
Ogmios is the Druidic god of speech. The Ogmion here most likely reflects a Celtic person who is a top rate speaker, an orator of the highest skill and ability. Selin most likely refers to the future Islamic leader. The ensign, banner or sign that extends in Italy is most likely that of the future Celtic leader. The last line is interesting.
Long temps sera sans estre habitee,
Ou Signe & Marne autour vient arrouser :
De la Tamise & martiaux tentee,
De ceux les gardes en cuidant repousser.
This is talking about a future catastrophe. Where the Seine and Marne join is the city of Paris. The Thames refers to the British.
De nuict par Nantes Lysis apparoistra,
Des artz marins susciteront la pluye :
Arabiq goulfre grand classe par fondra,
Un monstre en Saxe naistra d’ours & truye.
In the third line, fondra has several possible meanings. I chose consolidate as that seems to fit the quatrain, though it also could be melt or thaw. The rain is most likely a rain of ammunition, though it could be something else. The fourth line is ambiguous to me; the bear could be Russia, but if that is true what is the sow? As for the third line, the only time I know that great fleets assembled in the Arabian Gulf was during the Iraq War, when a coalition of nations, led by the United States, supported Saudi Arabia and Kuwait against Iraq – major fleets were found in the gulf during that war. Regardless, this has to refer to the future.
Le gouverneur du regne bien scavant,
Ne consentir voulant au faict Royal :
Mellile classe par le contraire vent,
Le remettra à son plus desloyal.
The closest translation of Mellile is Melilla, a Spanish autonomous port in North Africa. If this is correct, and I think it is, then this can only refer to the last President of Spain before the civil war, Manuel Azaña.
Azaña was a very learned individual, being a newspaper editor and having run several magazines, most notably España before 1924. A co-founder of Acción Republicana, a left leaning Spanish political party, he was a member of the Spanish legislature, the Cortes Generales, when he published a manifesto against King Alfonso XIII in 1924. This, along with his signature on the Pact of San Sebastián helped to bring down the Spanish monarchy and create the Second Spanish Republic.
Azaña made Francisco Franco his arch enemy when he closed the military academy in 1932. Azaña found Franco’s speech insulting and had him watched, further angering the future dictator. However, Franco was a realist and, as a result of other penned notes, was rapidly promoted. He was the most noted military personality when the Spanish Civil War erupted.
Melilla here represents Spanish Monaco, where Franco started out when the civil war broke out in all its fury. The fleet was an air fleet, supplied by Italy, Nazi Germany, and even Great Britain. Using this air arm, Franco ferried his troops over to Seville, where he was able to start the long conquest that would lead up to the overthrow of the Republic. Azaña had become a tool of the Communists and was by the end merely a figurehead, but he was firmly established with the atheists and was opposed to all forms of monarchy. Franco, by not only opposing him personally, but by also claiming to support Catholic Spain and the monarchy, betrayed everything Azaña stood for.
Un juste fera en exil renouvé,
Par pestilence aux confins de Nonseggle,
Responce au rouge le fera desuoyé,
Roy retirant à la Rane & à l’aigle.
The key is the proper translation and understanding of Nonseggle. It is likely an anagram, but one that I cannot figure out.
Entre deux monts les deux grans assemblés,
De laisseront leur simulte secrette :
Brucelle & Dolle par Langres acablés,
Pour à Malignes executer leur peste.
The plague of line 4 could be an actual deadly sickness, it could also be warfare, or both. Dole could be one of several places – France, Switzerland, Wales, Latvia or Nepal, with France being the most likely. Langres is in France. Brussels is in Belgium. Of key note is Malignes. It is likely a place, but I cannot place it. I have translated it as Malignant, and have translated the quatrain accordingly. It fits, but I strongly suspect a different interpretation to this, maybe an actual location.
If we take Dole as being in Switzerland, then this could have been fulfilled. French (Langres) troops conquered modern day Belgium (Brussels) and Dole (Switzerland) in their zeal to protect France from Austrian aggression. Napoléon refused to release these two states when the British demanded it. The malignant plague in this case would be the French Empire under Napoléon. And while there are several possibilities for the two great ones who meet, the most likely would be Napoléon and Emmanuel-Joseph Sieyès, the Director opposed to the path of the Directory. However, this depends on malignant being the correct translation of Malignes.
La saincteté trop faincte & seductive,
Accompanigné d’une langue diserte :
La cité vielle & Parme trop hastive,
Florence & Sienne rendront plus desertes.
The old city is Rome. All the cities are located in Italy. The holiness too false and seductive is most likely Fascism, which had a very Catholic outlook in Italy, even while it violated many of the tenants of Christiandom. The consequence of Fascism was a depopulation of Italy, most notably during the bloody fighting up the Italian boot.
De la partie de Mammer grand Pontife,
Subjuguera les confins du Dannube :
Chasser les croix par fer raffe ne riffe,
Captifz, or, bagues plus de cent mille rubes.
The cross of the hook and crook is the swastika, it can be no other. This places the quatrain into Nazi Germany during the Second World War. The force that subjugated the boundaries of the Danube while they were dispelling the forces of the swastika (Nazi Germany) was the Soviet Union, which had a very materialist philosophy in Communism. For this reason, I have dared to translate Mammer as Mammon, the supposed God of Money. I could be wrong on that one point, but the first two lines of the quatrain can refer to nothing else and fits the Soviet Union in a very real way. The Pontiff of Mammon would, in this case, be Joseph Stalin.
Dedans le puys seront trouvez les os,
Sera l'inceste, commis par la maratre :
L'estat changé, on querra bruit & los,
Et aura Mars atrendant pour son astre.
The astrological chart of the First French Republic places Mars as the ascending planet. This is a key to understanding the quatrain.
The first two lines are quite symbolic. The pits of the depth of the dying monarchy were the bones of ancient greed and corruption, gnawed upon by the nobility and upper clergy that was supported by the monarchy. The incest refers to the fact that among the nobility there was a lot of inbreeding, with an absolute hatred of the common person except, perhaps, as chattel. The third line was both symbolic and factual: the monarchy was changed first from an absolute monarchy to a standard monarchy with the Estates General providing guidance, then with the tennis court oath the Third Estate became the National Assembly, destroying the Estates General. The revolution destroyed many of the beliefs held by the old nobility and, while it ultimately failed thanks to its excesses and destruction, it was held up as a shining example to later generations and would result in the overthrow of first Louis Philippe and later Napoleon III.