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Journée, diere, interim, ne concile,
L’an paix prepare, peste, faim, sehismatique :
Mis hors dedans changer ciel, domicile,
Fin du congé, revoire hierachique.
The quatrain is a bit symbolic here, but quite accurate. The desires of the French Revolution were not realized in full. Everything was interim, transitory. Though the leadership of the revolution desired peace, they constantly found war. Everything was changed. But in the end, the result was the re-establishment of Louis XVIII, the hierarchy of Capet.
Rompre diere, lantiq sacré ravoir,
Dessous les deux, feu par pardon s’ensuivre :
Hors d’armes Sacre: lógRouge voudra avoir,
Paix du neglect, l’Esleu le Vefue viure.
Hard to say which one this is. It could be Louis XVIII, or Louis Philippe, or Napoléon III. It could also refer to a future time or place. I am forced to leave this to the reader to figure out.
Fera paroir esleu de nouveauté,
Lieu de journée, sortir hors des limites :
La bonté fainte de changer cruauté,
Du lieu suspect sortiront trestous viste.
Du lieu esleu Razes n’estre contens,
Du lac Leman conduite non prouvée :
Renouveller on fera le vieil temps,
Espeuillera la trame tant couvée.
The key is the shaved on the first line. That can only be a reference to Napoléon, who was the first ruler to crop his hair close to his head.
The place selected by the conquering powers was the Isle of Elba. There Napoléon had to go and the coalition strongly hoped that there he would remain content. At the Congress of Vienna, the rulers of the victorious powers sought to restore the old ways. Louis XVIII was imposed on the throne of France. Various land grabs were allowed, strengthening Austria and Prussia respectively. Many were the "weavings" of plots and counterplots. Even Talleyrand, Napoléon's one time foreign minister, wove his own spells.
The part about Geneva is very interesting. Geneva was a republic, governed by an elected council that enforced certain liberties in the city. This wise guidance was lost to the members of the Congress of Vienna who sought instead their own self-aggrandizement.
Pache Allobrox sera interrompu,
Derniere main fera forte levée :
Grand conjuré ne sera corrompu,
Et la nouvelle alliance approuvée.
The Allobrox refers to the people of Italy. The agreement is the peace agreement between the Italians and the French. By declaring war and marching, Mussolini broke the peace agreement. The left hand refers to the French, on a standard map France is on the left side and the French definitely embarrassed the Italians. The conspirator has to be Laval, who was a con man of a politician. He was at least pro France before he become important in Vichy, but after Hitler won, Laval showed his true nature and became a collaborator with the Germans, which corrupted him. The new alliance would be the alliance with Germany, which was a partial alliance at best.
Longue crinite leser le Gouverneur,
Faim, fievre ardante, feu & de sang fumée :
A tous estats Joviaux grand honneur,
Sedition par Razes allumée.
The shaven almost certainly refers to Napoléon Bonaparte, who was known as the shaved head. The quatrain certainly seems to fit him. The part about the bearded star is the Great Comet of 1811. In this time Napoléon and Alexander of Russia had a falling out and Napoléon decided to attack, which he did in 1812.
Peste, faim, feu & ardeur non cessée,
Foudre, grand gresle temple du Ciel frapé :
L’edit, arrest, & grieue lov cassée,
Chef inventeur ses gens & luy hapé.
Though actually ambiguous, the heat of the first line and the lightning of the second strongly indicates modern warfare. I am therefore claiming that this is a future quatrain.
Privés seront Razes de leurs harnois,
Augmentera leur plus grande querelle :
Père Liber deceu fulg, Albonois,
Seront rongées sectes à ia moelle.
The First Balkan War was the great quarrel this quatrain refers to. This was a war caused to a large degree by conflicting claims given by the Great Powers of England, France, Germany, Austro-Hungary and Russia. Though each officially was against the war, each had their own private reasons for supporting it. This augmented the quarrel. And after the war ended, the Great Powers deliberately interfered to impose the Treaty of London, which pleased nobody.
The war had been precipitated by bad planning and weakness on the part of the Ottoman Empire. But the key part that concerns this quatrain concerns what they did to Muslim Albanians. When Serbia had gained its independence, the Young Turks, who ruled the empire at the time, invited all of the Muslim Serbs to move back to the empire; these were settled in what is today southern Albania and Montenegro. This was disastrous, as the new settlers would side with the rebellious Albanian peoples during the war.
The Balkan states were privately annoyed by the result of the war. Albania was granted its existence, much to the annoyance of the Serbs and Greeks. Bulgaria was the great winner of the First Balkan War, but had quarrels with its allies, Serbia and Greece. Freedom from Ottoman control was deceptive. Anger was rampant everywhere. The Balkans had become a powder keg.
Sera receve la requeste décente,
Seront chassez & puis remis au fus :
La Grand Grand de trouvera contente,
Aveugles, sourds seront mis au dessus.
The ending of the War of the Spanish Succession is the event being talked about here. The British under Marlborough had been chased from the fields thanks to the pyrrhic victory at Malplaquet. Villars had also defeated Prince Eugene at Denain, then after capturing Landau and Freiburg, Eugene of Savoy accepted the very generous treaty that Villars offered.
Per the terms of the treaty of Rastatt which Eugene signed, Philip V of Spain would remain on the Spanish throne. In exchange, the Austrians gained territories in Italy and Spanish Netherlands, though France retained Freiburg. Savoy gained the isle of Sicily.
Six month later the companion treaty of Baden was signed, which granted France the lands of Alsace which they had long sought after. Austria regained Freiburg and all of its lands east of the Rhine. Charles got the right to be called King of Spain though all power now resided with Philip. This ended the war.
The greatest was Louis XIV who had lost his ambitions for dominance in Europe but had gained his ambition of placing the House of Capet on the Spanish throne.
The blind and deaf were Charles VI of Austria and Philip V of Spain, both of whom were outraged – their own war continued for a number of years but the issue had been decided and neither could make any headway.
Ne sera mis les Nouveaux dechassez,
Noir & de LOIN & le Grand tiendra fort :
Recourir armes, Exiles plus chassez,
Chanter victoire, non libres reconfort.
The key word here is LOIN. It is also found in the following Almanac quatrains: 1561 Juin (June), 1562 Mars (March), 1562 Avril (April) & 1562 Decembré (December). All of these quatrains are most likely tied together in some way, much as the Hister quatrains are all tied in their descriptive meaning about Adolf Hitler.
Les devils laissez, supremes alliances,
Raze Grand mort, refus fait en à l’entrée :
De retour estre bien fait en oubliance,
La mort du juste à banquet perpertrée.
Though this quatrain could be stretched a bit to include other events, like the Congress of Vienna or the peace after the War of the Grand Coalition against Louis, this most properly refers to the time from 1918 to 1939.
The devils leaving refers to the silencing of the guns in 1918. The Great War was over with over 4 million fatalities, an unheard of number. The supreme alliances, the Allies/Entente and the Central Powers, were exhausted after the war and hatred reigned. The victors had a chance at true peace. But as the Prussians had done in 1870 so now the French did in 1918 and threw it all away in the name of vengeance.
As the years went by, the anger of the defeated Germans continued to simmer. The evil that was Nazism grew and thrived while the people of England, France and even Italy grew complacent and forgetful. The result was the fury of the Second World War.
The last line is a poetic reference to humanity's preference for greed and gain over the workings of justice. It is a constant issue. The victors of 1814 did it. The victors if 1870 did it. And the victors of 1918 did it. They would even try to do it in 1945, though thankfully circumstances conspired to prevent that injustice.