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L’enfant Royal contemnera la mere,
Oeil, piedz, blessés rude inobeissant,
Nouvelle à dame estrange & bien amere,
Seront tués des siens plus de cinq cens.
Garenciéres considered this to be the feud between Louis XIII and his mother, Marie de Medici; I believe many interpreters follow his interpretation as factual. It is certainly true that Louis was rude to his mother and that the battle of Ponts-de-Ce was a defeat for the Queen, resulting in her exile by Louis. Garenciéres claim that Marie lost slightly over 500 followers at that battle is likely accurate – being a Frenchman who lived not far from that time he should know. I would have agreed with him but for one thing – as far as I know, Louis was not wounded. As a result, this has to be a later Louis.
The only Louis who was a royal child that fits after Louis XIII is Louis-Charles, known as Louis XVII once his father was killed. In this case the mother is Marie Antoinette. It is unknown if Louis actually did despise his mother, but it is definite that the Republican leadership wanted him to testify against his mother during her trial. As a result he was coached very strongly by Hébert, his guardian, into making the accusations correctly. Among other things, he accused his mother of sexually abusing him – this accusation produced an emotional storm from Marie Antoinette that was so emotional and so powerful that many people, the women in particular, started to support her.
Louis died in the tenth year of his life. His corpse was examined by Dr. Philippe-Jean Pelletan who was reportedly shocked over the condition of the body, the result of beatings and physical abuse Louis was forced to endure. Scars and welts were noted even over his arms, legs and feet.
Naturally Marie Antoinette was executed. Many of her supporters were also executed. The exact number is unknown, but over five hundred is a reasonable claim.
Le grand puisné fera fin de la guerre,
Aux dieux assemble les excuses :
Cahors, Moiffac iront long de la ferre,
Reffus Lectgore, les Agennois razés.
“Before the gods” is a very strong indication of the future. It is not an indication of the Christian past. The Agenois are the people of Agen, where Nostradamus lived his happiest days.
De la cité marine & tributaire,
La teste raze prendra la sartapie :
Chasser sordide qui puis sera contraire,
Par quatorze ans tiendra la tyrannie.
The key to this one is the second line. The shaved head was unknown before Napoléon, but very common after he was deposed. But most people after Napoléon were not known for the shortness of their hair. Napoléon, who established the custom, was.
Since this is obviously about Napoléon, the rest of the quatrain fits together like a jigsaw puzzle. The city that is both marine and tributary can only be Toulon. The city had risen against the republican government, but it was also occupied by the British. Napoléon was the one who figured out how to drive the British out of Toulon.
Napoléon was promoted to Brigadier General. After Robespierre was disposed of, Napoléon achieved even greater power, becoming Commander of the Interior. His success in Italy allowed him to negotiate treaties in the name of the ineffective Directory. He had a desire to spread the revolution to Egypt, so France gave him a force and a fleet and sent him on his way, allowing him to become the equivalent of a French Satrap in Egypt.
But France endured disasters while Napoléon was away. The situation deteriorated completely for the Directory. Napoléon, isolated in Egypt with a diminishing force, had to run back to France. He returned a hero, and, though the situation had stabilized during his return, soon conspired with Emmanuel Joseph Sieyès to depose his enemies in the disasterous Directory and replace it with a small band of governors. The coup was successful. November 18, 1799, marked the day when Napoléon triumphed over his enemies and outwitted his friends. By becoming First Counsel, he guaranteed that he had the sole power to legislate.
He would retain power until April 4th, 1814, when his generals literally revolted against him in order to stop the fighting. He was sent packing to Elba by the British, where he would remain for a while. He had ruled France as its First Counsel, later Emperor, in all cases its sole lawgiver and ultimate judge (the definition of a tyrant) for fourteen years, four months and sixteen days, fulfilling the fourth line.
Faux exposer viendra Topographie,
Seront les urnes des monumens ouvertes :
Pulluler sectre, saincte philosophie,
Pour blanches, noirs, & pour antiques vertes.
The topography refers to the political topography. The false display was the creation of the modern Départements to replace the ancient, truer provinces. Even today, Frenchmen consider themselves to be inhabitants of Normandy, Brittany, Gascony, Provence, or any of the other ancient provinces – they do not refer to the modern Départements except as a matter of political expediency.
The modern Départements were created during the French Revolution. The urns refers to the tombs, especially of the nobility, that were opened by an angry populace who sometimes scattered the bones. The sects refers to the two cults created by Robespierre, the Cult of Reason and the Cult of the Supreme Being. Holy Philosophy, i.e. Christianity, was officially suppressed, yet it thrived for the Catholics and Huguenots who refused to abandon their faith were many. The last line refers to the various factions that fought and even today still struggle in France, the Monarchists, the Bonapartists and the Republicans.
Devant cité de l’Insubre contree,
Sept ans sera le siege devant mis :
Le tresgrand Roy y fera son entree,
Cité, puis libre hors de fes ennemis.
Piedmont is the region of Insurbia. This describes a siege of seven years that occurs against a city of Piedmont. However, I cannot figure this one out. Therefore, I must leave this to the reader to figure out.
Entree profonde par la grand Royne faicte,
Rendra le lieu puissant inaccessible :
L’armee des troys lyons fera deffaite,
Faifant dedans cas hideux & terrible.
The war is the English Civil War. The queen is Henrietta Maria, wife of Charles I, who obtained vital war materials fromFrance. Barely avoiding an English fleet sent to capture her, she entered the city of York which became a Royalist stronghold. Attacked by the Parliamentry forces, it proved to be unconquerable and would remain a major city in support of Charles to the end.
But the Royal Army was doomed. It is the army of the three lions, so called because of the three lions that are on the royal coat of arms of England. Parliament invited the Scots to join on their side, which they did. This was also the first appearance of the famed redcoats, under Cromwell’s New Model Army. Hideous militarism in the guise of Puritanism would win out and execute the king. Then for twelve long years Cromwell, the defacto military governor, would govern England while he hurt Scotland and savaged Ireland, causing scars and hatred’s that persist to this day.
Le prince rare de pitié & clemence,
Viendra changer par mort grand cognoissance :
Par grand repos le regne travaillé,
Lors que le grand tost fera estrillé.
The last word, estrillé, is an interesting word. It is obviously altered to rhyme with travaillé. The closest I could find is the Spanish word estrellar which means literally to smash with a fist. Nostradamus has used some English words in his quatrains; it would be surprising if he did not use any Spanish words, especially as the Spanish were closer to where he lived than the English were.
The second line indicates the future, a time when learning will be decreasing greatly in the country where the prince of line 1 takes over.
Les assiegés couloureront leurs paches,
Sept jours apres feront cruelle issue :
Dans repousés feu, sang, sept mis à l’hache,
Dame captive qu’avoit la paix tissue.
The first line is different for each of the different versions. The Du Rosne has it Les assiegés couloureront leurs paches, while the Rigaud edition has it Les assiegés coulour ront leurs paches. I ended up using the Du Rosne because it made more sense and the Sève edition agreed with it.
The besieged is Germany, besieged on August 25th by Polish resistance, French agreements and British determination to go to war if Germany attacked Poland. In fact, the British announced a formal treaty with Poland promising to come to Polish aid should Germany attack. Because of this, Hitler, who had planned to attack Poland on the 25th, delayed the attack by seven days. He hoped the British under Chamberlain would back down. But the British did not back down and Hitler struck on September 1st. The seven put to the axe (conquered) were Poland, Denmark, Norway, Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg, and France. The lady is, of course, the League of Nations, which was effectively destroyed by the Nazi attack.
Le fort Nicene ne sera combatu,
Vaincu fera par rutilant metal :
Son faict sera un long temps debatu,
Aux citadins estrange espouvemtal.
Nicene could refer to a citizen of old Nicaea (modern day Iznik) where the Nicene Creed was forged. But it is almost certainly a reference to a citizen of Nice. If so, the strong Nicene would refer to Giuseppe Garibaldi, who was born in Nice on July 4, 1807. Nice was then part of Piedmont and called Nizza. The first line of the quatrain refers to the Campaign of 1860 and the battle that was never fought.
Garibaldi rose an army of about a thousand and crossed the sea to land in Sicily. There he won several battles and captured control of the isle. Then, he crossed the Straight of Messina, with British assistance. His march north was met with great celebration and minor resistance and his army of volunteers swelled to about 24,000. At Volturno he met a Neapolitano army of 25,000. He may have won, but the Piedmontese army joined the enemy, effectively stopping Garibaldi’s advance.
Victor Emmanuel feared not the papacy so much as he feared French intervention. He had lost the second Italian Revolutionary War, and had been forced to pay France the lands of Savoy and the city of Nice. He feared, with some justification, the strength and wealth of France under Napoléon III, so held off attacking the city of Rome. He also held off Garibaldi from attacking Rome. The battle Garibaldi wanted, the conquest of Rome, was shunted aside, never to be fought.
Garibaldi would willingly hand over the lands he conquered to the King, Victor Emmanuel II, who became King of Italy. This was long debated, and many even today claim that Garibaldi’s giving up his conquests to the king was a capitulation. Yet Garibaldi, preferring to see Italy unified, seemed to hold no animosity towards the King.
Ambassadeurs de la Toscane langue,
Avril & Mai Alpes & mer passer :
Celuy de veau exposera l'harangue,
Vie Gauloise ne voulant effacer.
In the months of April and May of 1940, France and Britain were busy exchanging embassies with Italy with the express purpose of getting Italy into the war against Germany, or at least to remain neutral. Mussolini sent embassies in return, but even then he was preparing to attack France. The one of the calf is Adolph Hitler, he was born in the sign of Taurus, the bull. And yes, he wanted to wipe out the French way of life – for a short time he succeeded.