Nostradamus has predicted:

Execution of Louis XVI

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


Quatrain I-3

Quand la litière du tourbillon versée,
Et seront faces de leurs manteaux couvers
La république par gens nouveaux vexée
Lors blancs et rouges jugeront à l'envers.



When the litter is overturned by the whirwind,
And their faces covered by their coats,
The republic upset by new people,
Then blacks and reds will judge the wrong way around

Quatrain I-36

Tard le monarque se viendra repentir,
De n'avoir mis à mort son adversaire:
Mais viendra bien à plus haut consentir,
Que tout son sang par mort fera défaire.



The monarch will repent a little late,
Because he spared his adversary,
But he will consent to even worse
That his bloody death will render useless.


Analysis:

la litière

tourbillon

versée


faces de manteaux couverts



par gens nouveaux vexée

blancs et rouges


jugeront à l'envers


son adversaire


à plus haut

consentir


par mort fera défaire

the litter.Here, it represents the french aristocracy, as they were the ones who were transported in that means of transport by servants.
whirlwind. Represents the whirlwind of the revolution that was about to eradicate the french aristocracy.
old french for renverser, to overturn. Thus the litter overturned
alludes to the aristocracy being brought from their pedestal, hunted down and executed.
the face hidden behind their coats. The french expression sous le manteau translates as clandestinely, or which is exactly what the aristocracy had to do to survive, hiding here and there and disguising themselves as common people to avoid execution.
by new people vexed.The new people are Robespierre and Danton who did everything to destroy the monarchy and Louis XVI as well.
white and red. Whiteis the color of royalty and royalists. Redis the color of revolution.
will judge the wrong way round. In the 18th century, the king was the supreme judge and had right of life and death on his people. The revolution came to change all that and now, revolutionaries are those who will judge the king.
his adversary. Here, the adversary of the king is, most probably, a pretender to the throne. Thus, we have here a king who will regret not having killed the one who threatened his throne.
higher. A plus haut must be taken in the sense of important, or again that has to do with royalty,
to consent. In the present case, the king is not only consenting to lose the absolute, and then the constitutional, monarchy, but he goes on to wear the 'bonnet' of the revolutionaries.
by death will make it useless. meaning that all these concessions will be useless. He will die anyway.

Interpretation

When the aristocrats will be hunted down by the whirwind of revolution,
And forced to to go in hiding to survive,
The revolutionaries, aroused by Robespierre and Danton.
will judge and condemn the king.
Louis XVI will regret
Not having killed the one who threatened his throne.
Even worse, he will renounce his royal powers and wear the 'bonnet of the revolutionaries.
Useless concessions, for he will be executed just the same.

History

1792 marks the beginning of The Terror in France. It is also marks the rise to power of Robespierre and Danton and the end of the monarchy (Quand la litière du tourbillon versée). No one is safe from the fury of the revolution and the aristocrats must go into hiding in order to survive (Et seront faces de leurs manteaux couvers).
Robespierre believed that the monarchywas the cause of all the wrongs of France and when he became deputy of the Assembly, the disappearance of the monarchy and that of the monarch became his hobby-horse.
July 29, 1792, Robespierre demanded nothing less that the deposition of the king and a National Convention: that was the watchword for all the sections of Paris...
...At last the moment arrives. It is the final vote for or against the condemnation of Louis XVI. Whereas before it was the king and the nobles (the whites) who were the judges, now, it is the revolutionaries (the reds) who judge their king (Lors blancs et rouges jugeront à l'envers).
December 11, 1792, Louis Capet, formerly Louis XVI, appears before the Convention. The revolutionary Assembly has transformed itself into a tribunal. It sits at the Tuileries...
Louis XVI is beheaded
...When the trial begins, Louis XVI does not delude himself in spite of the dedication of his defenders, Malesherbes, Tronchet et Desèzes. The trial will last up to the votes (january 15 to 19). 707 deputies out of 718 find the king guilty of conspiration...Then in a nominal vote that lasted 36 hours, they pronounce in favor of the death penalty. The required majority being 361 votes, 387 vote in favor of the death penalty, but 26 of them, with a possibility of a suspended sentence.Only one voice, and Louis could have avoided the guillotine: Philippe-Égalité (formerly Duke of Orleans and cousin of the king)is among the Montagnards who voted in favor of the death penalty. Thus the king owes it to his cousin if he did not get a suspended sentence. (Tard le monarque se viendra repentir, De n'avoir mis à mort son adversaire)
(Translation F.L. - Réference Internet: http://perso.wanadoo.fr/herodote/histoire11060.htm)
Even though king of France, Louis XVI would go from humiliation to humiliation, first losing the status of absolute monarch, then that of constitutional monarch. Even worst, he agreed to wear the Phryghian bonnet of the revolutionaries. (Mais viendra bien à plus haut consentir)And yet, this last humiliation and the major concessions to which he agreed in order to remain king were useless. Louis XVI was condemned to shed his blood on the guillotine. (Que tout son sang par mort fera défaire).