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There are a few animal types that reoccur in the Sixains. I have found that when the Sixains are applied to only the House of Capet that there is a consistency in what the animal types are used to represent:
The Wolf: Almost always this refers to the Duc de Mayenne.
The Elephant: I have not seen this refer to anything or anyone other than Felipe III of Spain.
The Leech: Usually Felipe II of Spain, who was known in France as the Leech of the Midi.
The Griffon: Henri IV of France.
The Crocodile: A servant of Spain, especially when operating against France. It first stood for Alexander Farnesse, the Duke of Parma and a loyal servant to Spain. Later it stood for the Jesuit Order, an order that for a long while operated more in the interests of Spain than in the interests of the Catholic Church.
There is also a single term, medicin which also applies. Usually it is medicine but it here finds a better expression as Medician, i.e. Marie de Medici.
Vaisseaux, galleres avec leur estendar,
S’entrebattrons pres du mont Gilbattar,
Et lors sera fors faits à Pampelonne,
Qui pour son bien souffrira mille maux,
Par plusieurs fois soustiendra les assaux,
Mais à la fin unie à la Couronne.
The Rock of Gibraltar looks like a small mountain. Pamplona is part of the region of Navarre, now controlled by Spain. It is true that the House of Capet reigns over Spain, so this could refer to something the Spanish arm of the house will need to know in the near future.
La grand Cité où est le premier homme,
Bien amplement la ville je vous nomme,
Tout en alarme, & le soldat és champs,
Par fer & eaue, grandement affligee,
Et à la fin des François soulagee,
Mais ce sera dés six cens & dix ans.
The city is Paris. The first man is Henri IV, who up to this time had consistently done all of the right things with an eye to governing and protecting the French people. This quatrain deals with Henri's last act, an act totally unbecoming of such a great monarch but definitely in line with one who had become a slave to his passions.
Henri’s last act was the only unworthy act he committed in his life. He had fallen hard for yet another woman, the very beautiful Charlotte de Montmorency, daughter of the Constable of France. Henri may have tried to do the right thing and married her to his young cousin, the Prince of Condé. However, Henri caved into his desires. Condé, apprehensive about his wife and the king, moved his wife away to the protection of the Archduchess of Flanders, who was no less than Isabella, the Infanta who had tried to become Queen of France during the religious Wars. Condé would move himself to one of the German principalities, eventually finding refuge in Milan where his wife would join him.
Henri was furious. He tried to get Cardinal Archduke Albert, Isabella’s husband, to return Henrietta to him. Charlotte remained passive and the Archduke rebuffed Henri’s efforts. This drove Henri into a rage. Abandoning all of his prior causes, his prior prudence and his prior concerns, he armed and prepared to involve France in a war with the Spanish. This alarmed the people in Paris and, as everything gathered, throughouth the nation. The number of soldiers multiplied like they were growing them in fields. However, before he could put his plans into effect, Henri was assassinated by François Ravaillac and the threat passed.
The word François has a double meaning. It means François, who was relieved to have done the deed; he was calm and collected during his trial, stating “I’ve no regrets at all about dying, because I've done what I came to do.” It also means France which was also relieved over not having to go into a futile war due to the sexual proclivities of one of France’s greatest kings.
Le petit coing, Provinces mutinees,
Par forts Chasteaux se verront dominées,
Encor un coup par la gent militaire,
Dans bref seront fortement assiegez,
Mais ils seront d’un tres-grand soulages,
Qui aura fait entrée dans Beaucaire.
There are two communes called Beaucaire. One is in the Gard department; the other is in the Gers department. The Provinces are likely the United Provinces which were mutinous to Spain and would eventually develop into the nation of the Netherlands. I cannot determine what the small quince is, but this sounds like the time when the United Provinces were in revolt against the Spanish. They were hard besieged, even with the leadership of the House of Orange. Yet they won because France, first under Henri IV and later under Richelieu, sided with the United Provinces. This would lead to a further weakening of the hated House of Hapsburg and would be of great interest to the House of Capet.
La belle rose en la France admirée,
D’un tres grand Prince à la fin desirée,
Six cens & dix, lors naistront ses amours,
Cinq ans apres, sera d’un grand blessée,
Du trait d’amour, elle sera enlassée,
Si à quinze ans du Ciel reçoit secours.
The lovely rose has to be Marie de Medici. She was considered uncommonly pretty when she was young. When she arrived in France, it is stated that Henri was so passionate towards her that he literally made her pregnant before they reached Paris. However, it is likely she hated her husband by the time he was killed in 1610. The love affair was her love of power, a trait she shared with her deceased relative, Catherine de Medici, though Marie seems to have born it worse than Catherine did. Five years later, her power was hurt by the calling of the Estates General, the legislative body of France. This saw the rise of Cardinal Richelieu, the great and powerful minister who helped to build the absolute monarchy. Nostradamus here says that if the Heavens are favorable, she could resume her love affair, i.e. her power, fifteen years after she was “wounded” by her loss of power. In 1630, she tried to dispose of Richelieu. She almost succeeded and had power for a day. So I guess that the Heavens did accept it – for a day. However, I guess the Heavens were ultimately opposed because Richelieu was the ultimate victor and she was banished again, never to return to France.
De coup de fer tout le monde estonné,
Pa Crocodil estrangement donné,
A un bien grand, parent de la sangsue,
Et peu apres sera un autre coup
De guet à pens, commis contre le loup,
Et de tels faits on ne verra l’issue.
This sounds like the liberation of Paris in 1693. Henri IV had besieged the city, but kept letting food to enter, he hated to see his people, as he called all the French, suffer. The blow was the attack on Lagny, a suburb of Paris, by the Duke of Parma, who was also the governor of the United Provinces and Flanders under Felipe of Spain. He is the crocodile because rather than face Henri in battle, he holed up in a swamp, knowing that Henri dared not attack him there. The wolf is the Duke de Mayenne and the leech is Felipe II. Henri, however, judged that Parma would have to withdraw his troops due to the pressures of the United Provinces revolt This is what happened and Henri all but decimated Parma during Parma’s exit back to Flanders.
Le pourvoyeur mettra tout en desroute,
Sansue & loup, en mon dire n’escoute
Quand Mars sera au signe du Mouton,
Joint a Saturne, & Saturne à la Lune,
Alors sera ta plus grand de infortune,
Le Soleil lors en exaltation.
The timing of the event is here given by the third, fourth and sixth lines. Mars is in the sign of Aries. The sun, in exaltation, is also in Aries. Some sources of exaltation place the Sun at about 19 degrees of Aries. Saturn will be in conjunction to Mars and to the moon, though it must be pointed out that with the orbs of exactness, Saturn does not necessarily have to be in the sign of Aries for the conjunction, it just has to be within 10 degrees. The same is true with the Moon, though some increase the orb of the Moon to 12 degrees.
The only date this particular planetary alignment has happened since Nostradamus wrote this: April 11, 1793 – Sun at 22 degrees 1 minute of Aries, Mars at 29 degrees 47 minutes Aries, Saturn at 3 degrees 35 minutes Taurus (within orb of conjunction) and the moon at 2 degrees 27 minutes Taurus around noon, Paris time. With the speed of the Moon, one can honestly claim that the connection could happen before, though Mars moving would stop it from happening the day after. It will not happen again for at least a century. Of key note is that just 5 days earlier, the Committee for Public Safety had been established, with George Danton as its head.
1793 was a very important year in French history. Citizen Capet was executed, the Committee of Public Safety was formed, the Girondins were overthrown and the Jacobins assumed total power, Jean-Paul Marat the original author of the Reign of Terror was killed in his bath, his killer, Charlotte Corday, was executed, Marie Antoinette was tried, convicted and executed, the short lived Republican Calendar was adopted, the Girondins were publicly executed and Toulon was captured from the British and Royalists.
As for the events of the 11th of April: by the Gregorian calendar nothing significant happened. That said, it is evident that the timing of the astrological configuration could not have happened any other time. Therefore, either Nostradamus was in error or he made a deliberate decision to utilize this aspect at this time knowing it would lead people to the time of the Revolution, the establishment of the Committee and the execution of Louis and Marie.
Le grand d’Hongrie, ira dans la nacelle,
Le nouveau né fera guerre nouvelle,
A son voisin qu’il tiendra assiegé,
Et le noireau avec son altesse,
Ne souffrira, que par trop on le presse,
Durant trois ans ses gens tiendra rangé.
The new, the great of Hungary, was Leopold II, the Holy Roman Emperor, King of Hungary, Archduke of Austria and Grand Duke of Tuscany. He was a brother of Marie Antoinette of France, and while he loved tearing apart France and did what he could to sink his teeth into French lands, he was appalled by what the French were doing to his sister. He reigned for just over 2 years. That said, he had considerable power during the last year of his brother’s (Joseph II) reign and may have been the real power during that time. Almost certainly, his influence helped to bring about what he dreaded, Robespierre to power and the death of his sister and her husband, Louis XVI (which ties this to the House of Capet).
Du vieux Charron on verra le Phœnix,
Estre premier & dernier des fils,
Reluire en France & d’un chacun aymable,
Regner long-temps avec tous les honneurs
Qu’auront jamais eu ses precesseurs,
Dont il rendra sa gloire memorable.
Chiron refers to the ancient Greek legend about the centaur teacher and healer of Hercules. Here it represents the king who taught the French to value peace and who healed the wounds of the Religious Wars; Henry IV.
We know that the Phoenix is Henri’s son, Louis XIII, thanks to Sixain 53. But what this is talking about is the issue of Louis. Now Louis had two sons, not one, but the second was of the founder of the traitorous House of Orleans – traitorous because a descendent of Philip would vote to have Louis XVI executed and another descendent would, illegally, take over the crown. So while factually incorrect, the second line could easily be morally correct as there was only one true descendent of Henri who came from Louis XIII. And it was not Philip, Duke of Orleans.
This can only refer to Louis XIV, the greatest of the Bourbon kings and the most splendid monarch the House of Capet produced. Known as the Great King, he reigned the longest of any of the monarchs of France. From Versailles, he controlled a court of unrivaled splendor. No king of France before him had as many honors as Louis did. Indeed, non since had as many either.
Venus & Sol, Jupiter & Mercure,
Augmenteront le genre de nature
Grande alliance en France se sera,
Et du Midy la sangsue de mesme,
Le feu esteint par ce remede extréme,
En terre ferme Oliver plantera.
I must thank Lee McCann for his interpretation that guided me to this one. While he was in error in one detail, he was close enough, the error he had was accurately interpreted in another way without changing the interpretation.
This quatrain refers to the end of the Valois-Hapsburg wars. Henri II married his eldest daughter, Elizabeth, to Felipe II of Spain, his recent enemy. This forged a peace alliance (olive) between the two powerful nations, one that, with the Religious Wars coming up, would be desperately needed. Elizabeth had been meant for Felipe’s son, Don Carlos, but the death of Mary Tudor necessitated a change of plans. Nostradamus called the marriage an extreme remedy that put out the fires of war – to the French it most likely was an extreme remedy, as Elizabeth was well loved. Still, the marriage proved to be a very happy one.
Felipe was the leech who was forced out of the Midi (southern France) by the Peace of Cateau-Cambrésis, which gave him Elizabeth.
The one part where Lee McCann was wrong concerns the first two lines. He was convinced it referred to astrological aspects. However, Nostradamus gave no astrological aspects or positions in the lines. It therefore refers to the natures of the gods: the sun (Apollo, who here represented foresight), Jupiter (the Chief of the Gods, representing royalty), Venus (representing love) and Mercury (the peace treaty). Their nature augmented the times, just as Nostradamus foresaw.
Un peut devant ou après l’Angleterre
Par mort de loup, mise aussi bas que terre,
Verra le feu resister contre l’eau,
Le r’alumant avec ques telles force
Du sang humain, dessus l’humaine escorce,
Faite de pain, bondance de cousteau.
The wolf in the Sixains is normally the Duc de Mayenne. Charles, Duc de Mayenne, died in 1611. Admittedly Louis XIII was newly crowned and the regency was in the hands of Marie de Medici. The reference to England could therefore be a reference to the Protestants, the Huguenots who saw their future suddenly clouded due to the death of Henri. It is true that the Huguenots were in rebellion constantly with Louis and the English did aid them against Richelieu. But that only covers two lines. Of the other four lines, only the abundance of knives, representing an abundance of weapons, would make any sense according to this.
The third line, strongly reminiscent of a nuclear explosion, indicates the future. The fourth line indicates electricity of some sort, maybe a futuristic weapon. As the French line of Bourbon is still alive and active, this could become information one of them needs to know in the future. However, how to tie this to the wolf, which in this case would have to represent someone rebelling against the lawful government? And what would the connection with England be? And how would it tie to the House of Capet?
Of course, it could be that Nostradamus simply got it confused, or this could be a union of two separate predictions, either after Nostradamus died or inadvertently by him while he lived. And lastly, it is possible there is some connection I, and others, have failed to see. To this end, we may never know.