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Quatrains 51 - 60

Quatrain 51

Peuple assemblé, voir nouveau expectacle,
Princes & Roys par plusieurs assistans :
Pilliers faillir, murs, mais comme miracle,
Le roy sauvé & trente de instans.

People put together to see a new spectacle
Princes and Kings by several assistants,
Pillars to fail, walls, but by reason of a miracle
The king saved and thirty at the moment.

Ambiguous

A Nostradamus mentioned spectacle concerning princes and kings that the people would gather for is rare. The last line is nonsensical to me, though instans is obviously altered to rhyme with assistans. I am afraid I cannot figure this one out.

Quatrain 52

En lieu du grand qui fera condemné,
De prison hors son amy en sa place :
L’espoir Troyen en six moys joinct mort nay,
Le sol à l’urne seront prins fleuves en glace.

In place of the great who will be condemned,
Out of prison his friend put in his place:
The Trojan hope in six months joined born dead,
The Sun in Aquarius will be imprisoned rivers frozen.

Ambiguous

That this refers to the French house of Bourbon is beyond a doubt. The French kings had a shadowy claim of a direct descendancy from Aeneas of Troy. The third line of the quatrain indicates that a hope of the house of Capet is born dead while the Sun is in the sign of Aquarius (approximately January 20 to February 20th). The frozen rivers indicates that it would most likely be during the earlier part of this time rather than the later part.

Quatrain 53

Le grand Prelat Celtique à Roy suspect,
De nuict par cours sortira hors du regne :
Par duc fertile à son grand roy Bretaigne,
Bisance à Cipres & Tunis insuspect.

The great Celtic Prelate the King suspects,
During the night leaves the kingdom in haste:
By the fruitful duke the great British king,
Byzantium by Cyprus and Tunis not suspected.

Ambiguous

This could tie in to the 49th quatrain of the 5th century, but the fourth line prevents me from accepting this. I strongly suspect this quatrain is already fulfilled, but I cannot place the event or the time.

Quatrain 54

Au point du jour au second chant du coq,
Ceulx de Tunes, de Fez, & de Bugie :
Par les Arabes captif le roy Maroq,
L’an mil six cens & sept, de Liturgie.

At daybreak during the second crowing of the cock,
Those of Tunis, Fez and Bugia:
By the Arabs capture the king of Morocco,
The year 1607 by the Liturgy.

Ambiguous

The Liturgical year is somewhat different than the standard year. The Liturgical year starts with the beginning of Advent, the time when Christians prepare for the coming of Jesus, which according to the Liturgical year, occurs on Christmas. The Christmas season continues through Epiphany, the time when the Magi visited Jesus. Then it goes through Ordal, or ordinary, then lent, which Christians prepare for the death and reasurection of Jesus, and Easter, the the time from the reasurection to the Ascention, before concluding with Penticost, which is the hope for the coming of the Lord. Because Advent starts sometime in November, the liturgical year 1607 was slightly earlier than the regular year 1607.

About all I know is that this time does correspond to a time when the lands of Morocco were being pressured by both the Spanish and the Ottomans (Arabs). Fez is located in Morocco. In this time, it is likely that Tunis, the modern capital of Tunisia, was also part of Morocco, while Bugia is now Bejaia, an Algerian city on the Mediteranian Coast.

Not knowing Moroccan history, I cannot tell whether or not this event occurred. However, with the pressure Morocco was receiving from the Ottoman’s (Arabs) at this time, it is certainly possible.

Quatrain 55

Au chalmé Duc en arrachant l’esponce,
Voile Arabesque voir, subit descouvertre :
Tripolis Chio & ceux Trapesonce,
Duc prins Marnegro & la cité deserte.

From the Chalme Duke by tearing off the spy,
Shall see Arabic veils, suddenly discovered:
Tripoli, Chios and those of Trebizond,
Duke captured the Black Sea and the city deserted.

Ambiguous

Marnegro is actually mar (sea) and negro (black) joined. Tripoli is the capital of Libya. Chios is an isle in the Aegean sea, off the coast of Turkey. Trebizond is now called Trabzon and is located in Turkey on the eastern edge of the Black Sea. The city of line 4 could be Trabzon, but I believe it is Istanbul.

Quatrain 56

La crainte armee de l’ennemy Narbon,
Essrayera si fort les Heiperiques :
Parpignan vuide par l’aveugle darbon,
Lors Barcelon par mer donra les piques.

The dreaded army of the enemy Narbonne,
Will frighten very greatly the Spanish:
Perpignun empty through the blind of Arbon,
Then Barcelona by sea will take up the quarrel.

Siege of Perpignun, 9 Years War, then the Start of the War of the Spanish Succession

In 1597, the last year of the 9 Years War, the French laid siege to the Spanish city of Perpignun. Narbonne here represents France. This war was a prelude to the stormy War of the Spanish Succession, which Spain (Barcelona) took up.

Quatrain 57

Celuy qu’estoit bien avant dans le regne,
Ayant chef rogue proche à la hierarchie :
Aspre & cruel, & se fera tant craindre,
Succedera à sacré monarchie.

He who was well forward in the realm,
Having a red chief close to the hierarchy,
Harsh and cruel, and he will make himself much feared,
He will succeed to the sacred monarchy.

Pope Benedict XVI

Cardinal Joseph Alois Ratzinger was head of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith. This was the new name of the organization formally known as the Inquisition, one of the bloodiest and most tyrannical institutions of all times. As such, his acknowledged conservative decisions had the effect of stifling many liberal opinions in the Catholic Church. He was feared by many people before he was elected Pope on the death of John-Paul II. His support of the clergy in its sexual excesses and his lack of regard for the laity that has suffered under these sexual excesses is coming out into the light. Finally, he has tried to draw the Catholic Church back from the decisions made by the conclave of bishops at Vatican II.

Quatrain 58

Entre les deux monarqhes esloignés,
Lors que le Sol par Selin clair perdue :
Simulte grand entre deux indignez,
Qu’aux isles & Sienne la liberte rendue.

Between the two distant monarchs,
When the sun by Selin is clearly lost:
Great enmity between two indignant ones,
So that to the Isles & Sienna the liberty is returned.

Lepanto?

If Selin is used to refer to Sultan Selim II, then this refers to the victory of Lepanto. The sun would be Felipe II of Spain, who took the sun as his symbol. The liberty of Siena and the islands would refer to the sudden freedom from Turkish conquest feared by all of Italy. Though Venice had to give up Cyprus, and the Turkish fleet was rebuilt within a year, the fleet, having lost so many of its experienced sailors, was never a major factor in western European affairs again.

I am unconvinced. However, I present this because I can think of nothing else.

Quatrain 59

Dame en fureur par rage d’adultrere,
Viendra à son Prince conjurer non de dire :
Mais bref cogneu sera le vitupere,
Que feront mis dix sept à martire.

Lady in fury by rage of adultery,
Will come to her Prince, conjuring him to say nothing:
But quickly shall the shameful deed be known,
So that seventeen will be martyred.

Ambiguous

The quatrain is most specific. A lady, most likely a mistress, is angry over something. She goes to her prince, who is most likely the fellow adulterer, to say nothing about some deed. Yet it becomes known, causing seventeen to unjustly lose their lives. I wish I knew all the details of the lives of all the kings and nobles of Europe, I would be able to figure this out then. Indeed, it could easily be from North Africa or the Middle East as Europe, giving this a wide range for possible fulfillment. I very much doubt that the lady is metaphorical, the detail about the prince and the deed points to actual individuals, not nations.

Almost certainly this has been fulfilled, yet because there is much about European history I do not know, I am not certain.

Quatrain 60

Le prince hors de son terroir Celtique,
Sera trahy deceu par interprete :
Rouan, Rochelle, par ceulx de l’Armorique,
Au port de Blaue deceuz par moine & prebstre.

The prince outside his Celtic lands,
Will be betrayed, deceived by the interpreter:
Royan, La Rochelle by those of the Armorique lands,
At the port of Blaye deceived by monk and priest.

Ambiguous

My first thought was this was the religious wars, but the quatrain does not seem to fit. Armorique is a land inside the land of Brittany. Royan and La Rochelle are ports along the Bay of Biscay, Royan being right on the entrance to the La Gironde Estuary. Blaye is a port further in the La Gironde Estuary. The rest of this is ambiguous to me.