Nostradamus has predicted:

Napoleon's empire will collapse.
Great Britain will become an empire.

According to my own method of interpretation,
only french lines in dark blue will be analysed and interpreted


Quatrain X-32

Le grand empire chacun an devait être,
Un sur les autres le viendra obtenir:
Mais peu de temps sera son regne et être,
Deux ans aux naves se pourra soutenir.



The great empire was expected to last each of the years, (forever)
It will expand, one (country) after the other:
But short will be his reign and life,
It (or he) will resist two years to the marine (attack or blocus).

Quatrain I-32

Le grand Empire sera tost translaté,
En lieu petit qui bientost viendra croistre:
Lieu bien infime d'exigue comté,
Où au milieu viendra poser son sceptre.



The great Empire will be rebuilt
In a small country that will soon grow:
Very small place of a small county,
In the middle of which he will put his sceptre.


Analysis:
The great empire
chacun an devait être
un sur les autres
le viendra obtenir
son règne et être
le grand empire




sera tôt translaté

en lieu petit qui
bientôt viendra croitre 		L'empire de Napoléon. (Napoléon's empire)
was to be each year, thus forever. Napoléon was named Consul for life.
one after the other or battle after battle.
to gain, in the sense of to win a war.
reign and being, that is to say, his empire and his life
To interpret correctly those two lines, one mus understand the meaning of empire: a sovereign state whose possessions have been extended by military or economic conquest, colonization or federation, to include countries or territories originally independant of it. (New Webster's Dictionary and Thesaurus - Lexicon Publications Inc.) Here, it is the great empire of Napoleon
Here, in old french, the word means to move from one place to the other or from one country to the other) Thus, moved somewhere else.
In a small country that will soon grow into an empire.


Interprétation

The great empire was to live eternally.
Il sera conquis pays par pays.
But his reigh will be short-lived. Napoleon's great empire will disappear
And will be replaced by the British Empire.

History

Within a few years, Napoleon builds an empire. He has become the undisputed master of Europe,(Le grand empire chacun an devait être) but from 1812 to 1815, he loses everything he has conquered:
In 1810, Napoléon is at the peak of his glory: the french empire is composed of130 departments and extends beyond the Alps and the Rhine; the main part of occidental Europe is closely subjected to his authority (Un sur les autres le viendra obtenir).
(Translation F.L. - Encyclopédie Universelle de la Langue Française - Georges Pascal)

After the failure of the Russian campaign, the desertion of his troups in Leipzig and the campaign of France in 1814 when the allies entered Paris, Napoleon loses, little by little, the territories he has conquered (Mais peu de temps sera son regne et être):
Louis XVIII is on the throne once again and the second treaty of Paris leaves France with no more than its frontiers of 1789. (That is to say, about everything Napoleon had won)
(Translation - Encyclopédie Universelle de la Langue Française - Georges Pascal)

During that time, England is rapidly growing and extends its possessions overseas (Le grand empire sera tôt translaté):
In the exterior, Great Britain is fighting almost permanently against the continental supremacy of France and its possessions overseas. The war of succession of Spain has already confirmed its maritime and colonial power. The treaty of Paris, at the end of the seven-year war in 1763, gives her India and Canada...Undisputed master of the seas, first industrialized country devoted to free-trade from 1846, Great Britain is the greatest political and economic power of the world (En lieu petit qui bientost viendra croistre). Victoria's very long reign (1837-1901) sees the colonial expansion follow its course in Asia and Africa. The Constitution of the Dominion of Canada will be the first step of the progressive transformation of the Empire in a Commonwealth of independant nations.
(Translation F.L. - Encyclopédie Universelle de la Langue Française - Georges Pascal)


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