Great Events of the World
as related by Nostradamus
Richelieu, Prime-Minister of France (1585-1642)
From chaplain of the queen, Richelieu becomes advisor to the regent and shortly after, he is given the post of Secretary of State.
He is then promoted cardinal and eventually becomes Prime-Minister of France.
In order to ruin the Huguenot party, he undertakes and leads himself the siege of La Rochelle its main fortified town.
He occupies the Valteline with an army that chases the spanish and pontifical garrison.
In spite of the storm it will create, he taxes the clergy that must contribute financially, in spite of its antique exemptions, an amount to be fixed by the king in exchange for the use of the properties granted to them.
Louis XVI, king of France (1754-1793)
At the Convention of 1792, and even though the Girondins are in majority and in favor of a Constitutional Monarchy, the Assembly, aroused by Robespierre and his group, votes for the disappearance of the monarchy. The fate of Louis XVI is in the hands of the people.
The fateful moment arrives. It is the final vote for or against the condemnation of Louis XVI to the guillotine. Whereas before it was the king who judged his subjects, it is now their turn to judge their king.
The majority required being 361 votes, 387 deputies vote for the death penalty, but 26 of them with a possibility of a suspended sentence. Only one vote and Louis XVI would have escaped the guillotine. Philippe Égalité, (Duc D'Orléans and the king's cousin) is amongst the Montagnards who vote for the death penalty. Thus the Duc D'Orléans is the one that made the difference and sent the king to his death. Because he was a constant threat to the crown, Louis XVI could have had him executed many times for high treason, but did nothing of the kind.
King of France that he was, Louis XVI would go from humiliation to humiliation, first losing his status of absolute monarch, and then that of constitutional monarch and, final insult, he agreed to wear the bonnet of the révolutionaries. And all this was done in vain, for he was nevertheless beheaded.
The execution of Robespierre
Robespierre is the one that led the Revolution to the most bloody epic of its history, epic that decimated the ranks of french aristocracy and sowed terror throughout France.
July 27 1794, he is arrested and liberated by the Commune. Arrested once again, he is sent to the guillotine with 20 of his partisans.
Rise and Fall of Napoleon
A Corsican born, Napoleon enters the french army, he distinguishes himself in Toulon and Egyp, and on his return to France he overthrows the Directory and becomes a member of the Consulate.
In 1804, he is crowned (by the Senate) emperor of the French, not suspecting that his reign would be short lived and he would be chased and exiled.
In the span of a few years, Napoleon builds an empire he thought would last forever. (He had been named Consul for life). One by one, he had annexed the border countries, and then extended his empire, creating the duchy of Varsovie and becoming master of all Germany and Russia. The french empire is now composed of 130 departments and extends beyond the Alps and the Rhine and the main part of occidental Europe is closely subjected to his authority. And yet, but from 1812 to 1815, he loses the territories he had conquered.
Following a desastrous campaign in Russia and his defeat at the battle of the Nations, he abdicates and is exiled to the island of Elba.
Having returned and marched on Paris in 1815, he tries to restore his empire during the Hundred Days. After the final defeat in Waterloo, he is sent by the British to St. Helena's island where he is kept prisoner until his death.
Great Britain Becomes an Empire
While the french empire is coming to an end, England is rapidly growing and extends its possessions overseas.
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. 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.
The Reign of Queen Victoria (1819-1901)
In 1837, Queen Victoria takes the throne after the death of her uncle William IV. Three years after, she marries her cousin, Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha.
Prince Albert dies of typhoid fever in December 1861.
Victoria continues to carry out her constitutional duties such as reading all diplomatic despatches. However, she completely withdraws from public view and now spends most of her time in the Scottish Highlands at her home at Balmoral Castle. At least according to Nostradamus, her mourning lasts seven years, and Victoria being in constant contact with her confidant John Brown, it only seems natural that, after seven years of mourning, she finally falls for the faithful servant. At least, this is what the seer saw in his vision.
Soon afterwards an attempt is made to kill Victoria while she is driving in her carriage in London. Further assassination attempts take place in 1842 (twice), 1849, 1850, 1872 and 1882.
Queen Victoria is very upset when Gladstone replaces Disraeli as premier in
1880. Gladstone's relationship with Victoria fails to improve. As well as her objection to the 1884 Reform Act, Victoria disagrees with Gladstone's foreign policy. She dies in 1901 after 64 years of reign.
The role of Belgium in First World War
During the First World War, Germany tries to conquer satellite countries and rebuild, once again, the Holy Roman Empire.
Guillaume II , in his ambitious goal of personally guiding the destiny of Germany with a firm grip,gets rid of Bismark, but he is weak and easily influenced. His personal initiatives, his violent speeches contribute to increase the political tension that leads to the First World War.
So, on August 12, by means of an ultimatum, Guillaume II instructs the government of king Albert to let the imperial troups pass through their territory. However, the Belgian army was ready for action with 340 000 men. Thus, Belgium's resistance slowed down the german offensive and allowed England and France to resist the enemy and eventually win the war.
Foundation of the state of Israel
Ben Gourion, was born in Plonsk, Russia. He joined the zionist movement to settle and unite Jews in Palestine. In 1906, he moved to Jaffa, Palestine. Elected to the Central Committee of Po'alei Zion, he began organizing workers into unions. May 1948, according to a U.N. regulation, a part of Palestine becomes a Jewish State.
Since then, Israel lives under the constant threat of the Arab states that surround it and refuse to recognize its existence.
The state of Israel was formed from a part of Palestine, Judea, which is also a part of Palestine and Syria(the Golan area).(Vers la Syrie, Judée et Palestine:)
Pétain and the France of Vichy
Aged 83, Pétain takes over the government of Vichy. In view of what happened later on, one might be inclined to think that leading a government in times of war was too demanding a post for a man his age, and it may be the reason why he took stands and made decisions that were later on considered as acts of treason by the post-war government of France. Fearing more and more the new turn of events and the new alliance of Pétain with the Germans (le chef de France par sa soeur redouté), the government of His Majesty recognizes De Gaulle as «the Chief of all free French, wherever they may be, who side with him for the cause of the allies.»
As time went by, he must have become more and more unsure and mixed up as to what he really should do. His call to collaboration with Hitler was most certainly unwarranted and the 1943 census of the Jews a very bad move as he could have left this infamy to Hitler himself. He even went as far as congratulating Hitler as the defender of France during the raid of the allies on Dieppe.
The last infamy occurred when, on January 31, 1943, the government of Vichy inaugurated the French Militia - les gendarmes - in order to oppose the Gaullists, communists and all those who opposed the politics of collaboration with the nazi Germany. France had become a German State.
In retrospective, I would say that Pétain was a scapegoat for all those who, like him, sided with those who, they thought would win the war. All in all, he was the instigator of his own decline and he was judged accordingly.
Lucien Bouchard, Premier of Quebec
Head of the Bloc Québecois in Ottawa, Lucien Bouchard is brought down by a
deadly virus and one of his legs is amputated in order to stop the spreading of
the disease.
A few months later, an artificial leg is installed and he can walk again, but
with a limp. He becomes the leader of the Parti Québecois and the standard
bearer of the separatist movement, Elected Premier of Quebec [le règne] at the
end of 1995, he becomes , in a way, the adversary of Prime-Minister Jean Chretien who has an adopted son.
His sovereignty option and the exercice of power will drain so much of his energy that it will be a long time before he heals completely.
Lucien Bouchard, Premier of Quebec
The world Trade Centre is no more.
In the face of the world, the tallest buildings of New York has been destroyed by a handful of fanatists who have given their own life and that of others for a so-called crusade against the USA and capitalism.
Those who sacrificed their life and that of so many innocent victims had made up their mind. After months and months of indoctrination on the necessity and the heroism of their holy mission, they already see themselves in Heaven. When the time has arrived, there is no more hésitation.
The plane and its passengers and all those who worked in the World Trade Centre were already condemned when the plane left the airport.
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French Quatrains
corresponding to these events.
Quatrain VIII-57
De robe courte...
...parviendra à la longue:
Vaillant aux armes en Eglise ou plus pire,
Vexer les prêtres comme l'eau fait l'éponge.
Quatrain I-3
La république par gens nouveaux vexée
Lors blancs et rouges jugeront à l'envers.
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.
Quatrain I-61
La république misérable infélice
Sera vastée du nouveau magistrat
Quatrain VIII-57
De simple soldat...
...parviendra en empire,
Quatrain X-76
Le grand Sénat décernera la pompe,
A l'un qu'après sera vaincu, chassé:
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,
Quatrain VIII-59
Par deux fois haut...
par deux fois mis à bas
Quatrain I-32
Le grand Empire sera tost translaté,
En lieu petit qui bientost viendra croistre:
Quatrain VI-63
La dame seule au règne demeurée,
D'unique éteint premier au lit d'honneur:
Sept ans sera de douleur éplorée,
Puis longue vie au règne par grand heur.
Quatrain III-14
Par grand fureur le Roi Romain Belgique
Vexer voudra par phalange barbare:
Quatrain I-98
Le chef qu'aura conduict peuple infiny,
Loin de son ciel, de meurs et langue estrange,
Quatrain III-97
Nouvelle loi, terre neuve occuper,
Vers la Syrie, Judée et Palestine:
Quatrain I-78
D'un chef vieillard...
...naîtra sens hébété
Dégénérant par savoir et par armes:
Le chef de France par sa soeur redouté
Champs divisés, concédés aux gendarmes
Quatrain VI-78
Quand dans le règne parviendra le boiteux,
Compétiteur aura proche bâtard:
Lui et le règne viendront si fort rogneux,
Qu'ains qu'il guérisse son fait sera bien tard.
Quatrain I-24
A cité neuve...
...pensif pour condamner,
L'oiseau de proie au ciel se vient offrir:
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