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On 3 May 2003 17:21:32 GMT, (Claude Latremouille)
wrote about what
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On Sat, 03 May 2003 09:48:54 +0100, Peter Lemesurier
<lemesur@bengal.demon.co.uk> wrote about what
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On 2 May 2003 09:54:57 -0700, (Peter K.) either
wrote or (if so marked) quoted:
Many Hitler and Napoleon quatrains are placed together.
Nostradamus doesn't mention EITHER Napoleon OR Hitler.
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Funny that you should say that, as both have been the subject of
anagrams on the part of Nostradamus, anagrams readily
recognizable in the published texts.
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HILTER is the perfect anagram of HITLER, and HISTER (not ISTER,
which means Danube) is the cryptic anagram of HITLER.
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As to Bonaparte, in addition to his celebrated anagram (PAU NAY
LORON) Nostradamus gives us plenty of clues as to his identity in
various quatrains.
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Granted, I-51 take a lot of intelligence to figure out a
reference to his military and political feats. But in I-60, Peter
Lemesurier's small-mindedness has no excuse for not seeing a
reference to Bonaparte's place of birth in line 1, and to the
thousands of soldiers killed in his endless wars, making him more
a butcher than a prince.
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Bonaparte's coup d'état was seen in IV-26, one of the few
quatrains written in Provençal. But it takes some knowledge of
the customs of his Empire to recognize in the reference to the
bees a clue to his reign. The betrayed city, betrayed by five
tongues not naked, is a veiled reference to the five-member
French Directoire, who wore a uniform, but did nothing good for
France, wasting their time wagging their tongue, i.e., speaking,
a regime replaced with Bonaparte's Consulat, a three-member body
headed by... Napoléon Bonaparte himself, of course.
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One of the most obvious verses about Napoléon is IV-54, the very
first quatrain published in 1557 for the first time (as the
previous edition ended with IV-53). In line 1, Nostradamus speaks
of one whose name would never have been worn by any previous
French king. Correct. Bonaparte was Napoléon I, the first. Italy,
Spain and the English did indeed fear him (this is line 3). And
Nostradamus even knows everything about his personal preference
in women, mostly foreigners. He married a Martiniquaise, later an
Austrian Archduchess, and a Polish Countess did indeed bear his
child. So, line 4 reads:
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De femme estrangiers grandement attentif.
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He was indeed extremely fond of foreign women.
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These are but a few examples of the manner in which Nostradamus
refers to some famous characters of his future, clearly enough to
allow those who shall come afterwards to see that he did, but
much too obscurely to allow anyone, before the fact, to see it.
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Seems that Peter Lemesurier is caught in a pre-1797 time-warp,
unable to see what most French commentators have seen ever since.
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As to Napoléon himself, he is said to have remarked -- about
Nostradamus' prophecies : « Ça énerve et ça épouvante
l'imagination ! ». Indeed it does.
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Have a nice day, ye all!
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Claude Latrémouille
May 3, 2003
http://web.ncf.ca/cj559
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