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Line 1 of quatrain I-35 had always been understood as standing
for the young Captain of King Henry II's guard, Gabriel de
Lorges, Count of Montgomery (the young lion), while the old lion
had always been understood as representing the (older) King
himself. First, the quatrain:
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--------------- C E N T V R I E__P R E M I E R E. ------------
----------------------- (=E9dition de 1555) --------------------
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---- 35 - Le lyon ieune le vieux surmontera, -----------------
--------- En champ bellique par singulier duelle, ------------
--------- Dans caige d'or les yeux luy creuera: --------------
--------- Deux classes vne,puis mourir,mort cruelle. ---------
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Forgetting for the moment that these four lines are four cryptic
anagrams describing clearly what is alluded to very obscurely in
the published poetry, one is left with the problem of the age
difference between the Captain and his King: they were almost of
the same age. Why then refer to them as young and old?
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Although it is true that Henry was older than Gabriel, one can
only agree with the statement of the younger lion overpowering
the older one (line 1 of the published text) if one considers
that the 'old' lion is about to die, and the 'young' lion shall
die much later.
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But why speak of lions at all? For two reasons. The Count of
Montgomery was Scottish and the lion is the emblem of Scotland.
And the astrological symbol for a King is... Leo, or the Lion.
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Would there not have been a much more satisfactory way of
speaking of these two men? Of course. Why did Nostradamus use
these convoluted expressions?
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ANSWER: It's the anagram, stupid!
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These four lines produce four cryptic anagrams which tell the
story very clearly:
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--------- Henry vient en lice aux Tournelles -----------------
--------- et il mande Gabriel pour une picque et De ----------
--------- Lorges luy adresse sa rude lance qui ---------------
--------- cause la mort cruelle de S.M. dix iours apr=E8s. -----
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A perfect account of the events of June 30 to July 10, 1559:
'Henry enters a tournament and mandates Gabriel for a joust and De
Lorges aims at him his rude lance which causes the cruel death of
H.M. (His Majesty - as S.M. is H.M.) ten days later.'
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Clever, eh, this Nostradamus?!
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Claude Latr=E9mouille
July 1, 2007http://web.ncf.ca/cj559
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