Oracles of Nostradamus BY CHAS. A. WARD. - https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/79378/pg79378-images.html#FRENCH_REVOLUTION

 

THREE PROPHECIES OF OLD TIME.

That Troy should triumph in Rome—

Νῦν δὲ δὴ Αἰνείαο βίη Τρώεσσιν ἀνάξει,

Καὶ παίδων παῖδες, τοί κεν μετόπισθε γένωνται.

Iliad, xx. 306.

That America should be discovered—

“Venient annis

Sæcula seris, quibus Oceanus

Vincula rerum laxet, et ingens

Pateat Tellus, Tiphysque novos

Delegat orbes; nec sit terris

Ultima Thule.”

Seneca.

French Revolution, 1788-89, predicted in 10th Century.

“Des le Xᵉ siècle, Albumasar avait calculé que l’année mil sept cent quatre-vingt-neuf serait féconde en révolutions sociales, à cause de l’une des grandes conjonctions de Saturne. L’astrologie est vanité, erreur, mensonge, tout ce que vous voudrez; mais enfin voilà une prédiction d’une authenticité irrécusable.”—Albumasar, De Magnis Conjunctionibus Tract. ii., Different. 8. Vide Migné, Dict. des Prophéties, 

Ses ennemies trouvés des conjurés:

Plus que jamais son temps triomphera,

Trois et septante à mort trop asseurés.

Translation.

She who was proscribed will return to the kingdom,

Her enemies will be treated as conspirators;

More than ever her time (or empire) will triumph;

Seventy-three years its deathly domination is assured.

The Revolution (la dechassée), repressed in 1816, shall again obtain the government. Its enemies will be treated as conspirators, and it will be stronger than ever. Seventy-three years are assured to its death-like rule. I give this as M. le Pelletier does, but I see no reason whatever to think that it is correct. Garencières makes it apply to Charles II. of England, and the seventy-three put to death are those who abetted the murder of his father. This is very vague. Garencières reads Le dechassé. Here we may remark that Napoleon himself [p. 289] dates his nobility from [228]the battle of Montenotte, 1797. Seventy-three years added to this yields us the remarkable date of the fall of his dynasty at Sedan, 1870.

Century I.—Quatrain 3. (September 22, 1792.) [I. 162.]

Quand la lictiere du tourbillion versée,⁠

Et seront faces de leurs manteaux⁠ couvers,

La republique par gens nouveaux vexée,⁠

Lors blancs et rouges jugeront à l’envers.

Translation.

When the litter is turned topsy-turvey by the typhoon,

Men will mask their faces with the cloak of hypocrisy.

The republic will be troubled by new-risen men;

The white and red will judge by contraries.

This means that the royalists (les blancs) and the republicans (les rouges) will judge of everything from utterly opposed points of view. What was top will become bottom, when the blast blows the litter over; and, new men rising to power, the rest will cover their faces with hypocrisy, as men do with their cloaks in a storm. Compare the phrase à l’envers with

Century II.—Quatrain 30. [I. 163.]

Un qui les dieux d’Annibal infernaux

Fera renaistre, effrayeur des humains.

Oncq’⁠     plus d’horreur ne⁠ plus pire journaux

Qu’avint viendra par Babel aux Romains.⁠

Translation.

There will be one who will revive the infernal gods

Of Hannibal, a terror to mankind.

Never arrived by Babel more horror

Nor worse day’s work than will fall upon Roman Catholics.

The meaning is, Napoleon shall arise, who will reawaken the solemn curse on Rome uttered by Hannibal, when he called the infernal gods to witness his hatred to her, to the terror of all mortals. Not Babel at the dispersion brought on the world more horror, nor days of more evil-ploughing for the present or seed-sowing for the future than shall fall upon the Roman world by him. This is much better than to limit it to an ecclesiastical area merely. We shall see that Charles V. is a sort of prototype of Napoleon, and Garencières adduces Charles V. as fulfilling this prophecy. Hannibal is also a prototype of Napoleon in attacking Italy by crossing the Alps.

Century I.—Quatrain 14. (1789-1793.) [I. 164.]

De gent esclave chansons, chants et requestes

Captifs par⁠ Princes et Seigneur aux prisons,

A l’advenir par idiots sans testes

Seront receus par⁠ divines oraisons.