Nostradamus has predicted:

The rise and fall of Napoleon

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


Quatrain VIII-57

De simple soldat parviendra en empire,
De robe courte parviendra à la longue:
Vaillant aux armes en Église ou plus pyre,
Vexer les prêtres comme l'eau faict l'éponge.



From private soldier will rise to empire,
From short soutane will rise to the long one
Courageous in arms against the Church or even worst
He will squeeze the priest as water in a sponge.

Quatrain X-76

Le grand Sénat décernera la pompe,
A l'un qu'après sera vaincu, chassé:
Des adhérents seront à son de trompe,
Biens publiés, ennemis déchassez.



The great Senate will crown,
One who will be soon defeated and chased out:
Followers will answer the sound of the trumpet.
Possessions pub lished, enemies thrown out.

Quatrain VIII-59

Par deux fois haut, par deux fois mis à bas
L'Orient aussi l'Occident faiblira:
Son adversaire après plusieurs combats
Par mer chassé au besoin faillira.



Twice in charge, twice dismissed,
The East as well as the West will weaken:
His adversary after many fights
Chased away by sea, will fail to the need.



Analysis:

De simple soldat
parviendra en empire
le grand Sénat
décernera la pompe


A l'un qu'après sera
vaincu chassé
Par deux fois haut
Par deux fois mis à bas 		From simple soldier. he will create an empire.
the Senate of France.
The Dictionnaire Encyclopédique de la Langue Française tells us Pompe: Déploiement de faste, d'apparat, Pompe d'un couronnement. (Pomp : display of splendor.; display of splendort of a coronation.)Here décerner la pompe means to elect for a highest post or to crown.
to one who will then be defeated and exiled.

Par deux fois élu au plus haut poste (Twice elected to the highest post)
Par deux fois démis de ses fonctions. (Twice dismissed from his duties)

Interprétation

From simple soldier that he was, Napoleon rises to create the empire of France,
He will be crowned emperor by the Senate.
He will be defeated and then exiled.
Twice he will be emperor, twice he will be exiled.

Histoire

A Corsican born at Ajaccio he was educated at military schools (De simple soldat - From simple soldier) in France and entered the French army...(He) ...distinguished himself at the siege of Toulon...and successfully dispersed the Vendémiaire uprising... commanded an expedition to Egypt...defeated the Mamelukes at the battle of the Pyramids...He returnede to France where he overthrew the Directory in the coup d'état of Brumaire (1799).
A member of the ensuing Consulate, he rapidly established a dictatorship with himself as First Consul. (1799-1804)...A plebiscite (1802) made Napoleon Consul for life (parviendra en empire - will create an empire)
The death of Napoleon
and in 1804, he was proclaimed (by the Senate) emperor) of the French...(le grand Sénat décernera la pompe - the senate will crown him)
The weakness of Napoleon's empire was first shown in the Peninsular War (1808-1814) and in his disastrous invasion of Russia (1812) After the retreat from Moscow his depleted army was defeated (1813) at the battle of the Nations. Napoleon abdicated (1814) and was exiled (à l'un qu'après sera vaincu, chassé - to one who will then be defeated, exiled.) to Elba, but returned (1815), marched on Paris and tried to restore his empire (par deux fois haut - Twice in power)during the Hundred Days. After his final defeat at Waterloo (1815), he was sent by the British to St. Helena ( par deux fois mis à bas - twice exiled) where he was kept prisoner until his death.
(New Webster's Dictionary and Thesaurus - Lexicon Publicationbs Inc. 1991)



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