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Croistra le nombre si grand des astronomes
Chassez, bannis & livres censurez,
L’an mil six cens & sept par sacre glomes
Que nul aux sacres ne seront asseurez.
Note on Translation: Astronomers could refer to astrologers, but I think it here means the actual students of the science or philosophy of astronomy, and through astronomy all knowledge in general. The word glome is quite interesting. It seems to be a rare word in several languages, French and English included. It comes from the old Latin glomus and means either ball or clue, glomus being the root word for globe. The only connection I can get for glome would be assembly, people from around the “globe.” That said, I can not find any sacred assembly in the year 1607. Of course, it is the year 1607 by a sacred assembly, so it could refer to an event that occurs 1607 years after a sacred assembly, like the Nicene Council, the first of which occurred in 325 AD. (1607 years later gives us the year 1932). The first seven sacred councils are First Nicaea (325 - 1932), First Constantinople (381 - 1989), Ephesus (431 - 2039), Chalcedon (451 - 2059), Second Constantinople (553 - 2160), Third Constantinople (680 - 2287) and Second Nicaea (787 - 2394).
If it is the first Nicene Council that is the sacre glome refers to, and I think it does, then this would have to refer to Adolf Hitler and the Nazi movement. Hitler rose to power and became the defacto force in Germany in 1932, 1607 years after the First Nicaean Council. Though he lost the election for president that year, losing the election to the aged Hindenburg, he was the true power; he would get the Chancellorship one year later. Everyone in the German government knew they had to deal with Hitler after the 1932 election, he was just too strong. The Nazis certainly did their best to burn all knowledge, especially any knowledge that had an origin by Jewish people. Nothing was acceptable but Nazi ideas, Nazi knowledge and Nazi thinking.
Nostradamus does seem to think that Hitler’s real power began in 1932, the year he became a defacto German citizen and ran for the presidency against Hitler. There are very strong arguments for this viewpoint so I cannot say that Nostradamus was wrong. Most Germans who lived in that time were convinced of it, they knew that any successful German government would require the participation of Adolph Hitler. Because of this, I also agree with it.
Champ Perusin o l’enorme deffaite
Et le conflit tout au pres de Ravenne,
Passage sacre lors qu’on sera la feste,
Vainqueur vaincu cheval manger la venue.
The key is line 4. The last line refers to the retreat from Russia, the most disastrous of Napoléon’s campaigns. The victor, Napoléon, was vanquished, though not by battle; it was the Russian weather that defeated him. During the retreat, the French cavalry and transport ceased to exist as all the horses were eaten by starving and dying soldiers.
The rest of the quatrain deals with the struggle between Napoléon and the Papacy. Ravenna in the second line refers to the Papal States. Perusia is the old name for Perugia, in northern Italy. Napoléon had Pope Pius VI, the official ruler of the Papal States, imprisoned in France and he had de facto control over northern Italy. The Pope refused to surrender to the demands of Napoléon. There was certainly a struggle between the two for the heart and soul of Europe. I cannot figure out the reference in the third line, but there are numerous religious feasts in the Catholic Church, this must refer to one of them.
Soldat Barbare le grand Roy frappera,
Injustement non eslongné de mort,
L’avare meré du fait cause sera,
Conjurateur & regne en grand remort.
The barbaric soldier is John Churchill, the Duke of Marlborough. Nostradamus here claims that his battles are unfair, that his acts are barbaric, especially in the year 1710, when Louis XIV was not far from death. But certain dealings concerning money would lead to Churchill’s downfall in 1711. Henri St. John masterminded accusations of embezzlement and of improper contracts. Though false, these helped to lead to the dismissal of the Duke from his position in the government and the military. The last line refers to the regret Britain would endure when Louis XIV won the War of the Spanish Succession, cementing his grandson on the throne of Spain and tilting the balance of power towards the house of Bourbon.
En terre neufue bien avant Roy entré
Pendant subges luy viendront faire aeueil,
Sa perfidie aura tel recontré
Qu’aux citadins lieu de feste & recueil.
According to the quatrain, a king travels far and enters a new land. His subjects come to welcome him. The key to understanding the quatrain is in the third line. Sa is often translated as his. But it can also be hers or, in this case, its. It is the last translation that allows the quatrain to be interpreted.
Archduke Ferdinand Maximilian Joseph of Austria was the dupe who powered this quatrain. The new land is literally in the new world. Often it refers to the United States, but here it refers to Mexico. Nostradamus included this quatrain because of French involvement in Mexican affairs.
Archduke Ferdinand learned about a plebiscite that was held in Mexico, a plebiscite that asked form him to assume the throne of Mexico. What the archduke did not know was that the plebiscite was held under the guns of the French who controlled the land. Believing that the Mexicans truly wanted him as Emperor, he traveled from Austria to Mexico to assume his throne. After he assumed the throne he learned of the deceitful nature of the plebiscite, yet he stayed on.
Mexico was not overjoyed by Maximilian. Recueil has two meaning, corpus (bodies) and omnibus (carriages). That and the festivals did occur, though in varying ways, throughout his tortured reign. The royalist party, a minority in Mexico, supported him. The townspeople, the common people of Mexico, never did accept him, or the pomp of his reign.
Note: This is the only quatrain Nostradamus has concerning the Mexican state, it is here only because of the involvement of French troops and policies in that nation.
Le pere & filz seront meurdris ensemble
Le prefecteur dedans son pavillon
La mere à tours du filz ventre aura enfle.
Caiche verdure de feuilles papillon.
Note on Translation: The third line can be translated a second way. The mother in the tower will have her belly swollen with (or by) her son.
The only French “Butterfly” I know of was Henri Charrière, a man convicted for the murder of a pimp, Roland Legrand, known as Roland the Petit, an act Henri always declared he was innocent of. Henri was sent to the French penal colony in French Guyana. He made numerous escapes, more than once hiding in the green leaves of the jungles of Guyana and Venezuela. And his eventual book, Papillon, which supposedly described his exploits, became world famous.
This could be describing one of Henri’s numerous escape attempts. If true, then the prefecture would be the governor of the penal colony. The third line could refer to one of the women Henri married through various means. But the first line is curious. Does it refer to Roland Legrand Petit and to a direct blood relative, i.e. father and son, or does it refer to someone else.
I am not convinced of the accuracy of this interpretation, but I do suspect it is true. It would not be the first time Nostradamus wrote a quatrain describing events of minor importance. He wrote such events in part to remind people that the world did not revolve around the great and strong, but around all humanity. See the 22nd Quatrain of the 1st Century for a known example.
Plus Macelin que roy en Angleterre
Lieu obscur nay par force aura l’empire :
Lasche sans foy, sans loy saignera terre,
Son temps s’approche si pres que je souspire.
Note on Translation: Macelin is obviously a French version of an old Latin word, macellum, which translates as meat market.
Cromwell was born in Huntingdon, England in 1599, a market town chartered by King John. The first line about the meat market is therefore both a reference to his birth and to his eventual career.
And the statement about him being more of a meat market than a king is quite accurate. Cromwell may have lead the New Model Army, but he was also enslaved by it, forced to accede to its dictates in many instances. When he was negotiating with King Charles, it was the Army that put a stop to it. When he was following Parliament’s orders, it was the Army who disposed of most of Parliament. It was the Army who demanded the execution of the King, the Army who demanded the dissolution of this or that Parliament, and the Army who forced Cromwell to reject the kingship for himself. Cromwell did lead the Army against the Cavaliers, the Irish and the Scots, but these were acts the Army as a whole wanted to do anyway. Cromwell could not and did not do a thing the Army disapproved of.
Based on his relationship with the Army, it is quite evident that Cromwell was, in many ways, a coward. With few exceptions, he could not, or would not, stand up to the Army. The only time I know he stood up to members of the Army was when they tried to establish universal suffrage, and his response was not to oppose them per say, but to simply send the advocates back to their regiments so that discipline could be enforced, an act that the Army agreed with.
Cromwell also seemed to not truly believe in any one branch of Protestantism. Though he most likely belonged to the “Reformed Calvinist Movement,” he was tolerant of almost all the Protestant churches. Some claim that this showed a religious toleration on Cromwell’s part. If so, it was a very limited toleration, because he refused to approve Catholics, Anglicans, Atheists, Jews or peoples of other faiths. He was a confirmed Calvinist, but he did not seem to be able to make up his mind as to which version was accurate. He simply allowed all of them to have their say. Of course, all the versions of Calvinism were followed in the Army, so likely the Army had its say in this decision.
During the English Republic, both the English Common Law, the basis of English identity and self respect since the time of Henri II and the Magna Carta, the first and supreme charter of English liberties as well as the basis for the crown being under the law since the time of King John, were void. Cromwell, effectively suppressing both the Common Law and the Magna Carta, ruled by decree, though he did pretty much whatever the Army wanted. There was no Parliament to represent the will of the people, nor was there a king to represent the royal authority. Cromwell’s reign was lawless, without a basis except by force of arms. The attacks into Ireland and Scotland are only two examples of Cromwell’s adventurism. Cromwell was always ready to attack Catholic Spain, though he was just as willing to attack Catholic France when France oppressed the Huguenots.
The last line needs no explanation.
L'antechrist trois bien tost anniehilez,
Vingt & sept ans sang durera sa guerre.
Les heretiques mortz, captifs, exilez.
Sang corps humain eau rogie gresler terre.
The fact that Nostradamus states that it is the antichrist places this in the future.
The antichrist is naturally the opposite of the Christ. Jesus was a person who preached love and compassion. He said that those who wanted power should seek to serve. The antichrist will be the antithesis of this. He will want power for the sake of power, will not love, will not care about anything except power, and will hate.
The rest of the quatrain is self-explanatory, though a detail is still hidden: Who the three good ones are we can not know. But we can speculate. My speculation is that it involves three decent Islamic countries, countries that truly try to live by the spirit of the “Laws of Allah.” If this proves to be true, and I suspect it will be, the antichrist will be the greatest hypocrite of all times.
Un Bragamas avec la langue torte
Viendra des dieux le sanctuaire,
Aux heretiques il ouvrira la porte
En suscitant l’eglise militaire.
This one almost has to be the future. Rare before the 20th century would any quatrain have any reference to “the gods.” Nostradamus’ was a Catholic and new better than to make such a reference. However, in this day and age, polytheism is being approached again. The ancient Olympic religion is making the biggest comeback, though druidic and others are also on the upswing. The military church is unknown, but probably refers to the Catholic Church as it fights for its existence in the near future. The key is in the first line, the Bragmas. It sounds like the Hindu word Brahman, but I am not certain.
Qui par fer père perdra nay de nonnaire,
De Gorgon sot la sera sang perferant
En terre estrange fera si tout de taire,
Qui bruslera luy mesme & son entant.
There is one political place known as a convent, the Convent, the governors house in Gibraltar. The place of birth could be here, or it could be in a literal convent. The Gorgon was the mythical lady of that name, damned by Athena to a head of snakes that struck terror in the hearts of all who saw her. The quatrain is self-explanatory, we just need to know whom it applies to.
Des innocens le sang de vesue & vierge,
Tant de maulx faitz par moyen se grand Roge
Saintz simulachres trempes en ardent cierge
De frayeur crainte ne verra nul que boge.
The third line demands that this be a nation where Christianity, especially Catholicism, is practiced. The second line indicates a revolutionary, especially a violent one. The first line indicates a time when women were killed. Only two times when all three criteria came together, and the description of line 3 does not apply to the Bolshevek or Stalinist revolutions. So all that is left is Revolutionary France.
The big red one has to be Robespierre. In attitude, he was the most revolutionary of the revolutionaries. A fanatic to the extreme, he had a fanatic’s attitude – anyone who disagreed with him was evil and had to be executed. The third line has a two fold meaning. Publically, Robespierre officiated over the cult of the Supreme Being. However, in private homes, saintly images continued to command attention, usually placed over burning candles, like in any in-home temple. People throughout France, and especially in Paris, were afraid to move against Robespierre.