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[204] Historical discrepancies ought to be chronicled, for they confuse all investigation, and force every conscientious new comer to commence the whole work over again. A writer in the “Book of Days” pretends to be particularly accurate (ii. 309), noting that “the storm in reality happened on Monday, August 30, and must have been pretty well spent before the Friday afternoon, when Oliver breathed his last.” Rosse, in his “Index of Dates,” says (v. _Storms_) that there was one on September 3. Carlyle (“Cromwell Letters,” iii. 457) chronicles the stormy Monday, but not the stormy Friday. Hume says a violent tempest “immediately succeeded his death.” Clarendon, who may be supposed to know better than any of them, writes (v. 648, ed. 1731:) “And this now was a day (_i.e._ the Friday) very memorable for the greatest storm of wind that had ever been known, for some hours before and after his death.”

[205] This, of course, is “living on barley bread,” as everybody translates it. I think, however, it has reference to the phrase _faire ses orges_, to enrich one’s self unscrupulously at the expense of others. If that be so, it becomes excellently applicable in the present context. [Noël.] He had sown his wild oats, and now began _à faire ses orges_.

[206] _Tant_, should, I think, be _temps_.

[207] Greek, κόπτειν, to strike = _coup_; it may even stand here for a _coup d’état_. [Borel.]

[208] Construction is _mettant à des plus grands le pied sur la gorge_.

[209] _Foudre_ metaphorically, saltpetre, here fireballs. The belief at the time was that the fire was the work of incendiaries, and it has never been disproved, though it has been ridiculed by those who set up for liberty and enlightenment. The Illuminati will not allow London to have been thus burnt by others; and it is quite certain that they themselves will never set the Thames on fire. What Nostradamus asserts here, history has asserted. That is enough for the present purpose.

[210] _La dame._ Garencières takes this for St. Paul’s, once dedicated to Diana, who is the ancient dame. We may take it for the mother Church, if we like; and it would not be using much violence if we read _le dome_, for that might very well mean, as in the Latin, _doma_, house or church, as St. Jerome uses it—_Domus Dei_, in fact.

[211] _Cherra_, future of the verb _choir_, tomber, to fall.

[212] _Secte._ By this Garencières thinks is meant the eighty-seven churches that were burnt with St. Paul’s, belonging to the same Protestant sect. We might read _sorte_.

[213] _Luite_, Romance for _lutte_, battle.

[214] Variant, _Luy, satallites la mort degousteront_.

[215] Esleut, or _esleu_.

[216] Romance, _dechassé_, driven away.

[217] _Versée_, for _renversée_.

[218] In this high-wind of revolution men will mask their countenances with the cloak of hypocrisy.

[219] Latin, _vexata_, troubled.

[220] _Oncques_, never, _nunquam_.

[221] Romance, _ne_, _ni_, nor.

[222] The order is “_Qu’avint oncq’_ plus d’horreur ni plus pire à Babel qu’il n’adviendra aux Romains par les journaux.” This is M. le Pelletier’s reading, and he interprets it of Voltaire, the encyclopedists and journalists of the seventeenth century, who assailed the faith and the Church of Rome. But surely the one like Hannibal was Napoleon, and the _journaux_ in this old speech does not stand for _journals_ and newspapers that had no existence, and therefore no name in the time of Nostradamus. _Journal_ meant a day’s work, such as could, in ploughing, be done by a man with two oxen.

[223] Latin, _per_, whilst.

[224] Latin, _pro_, for.

[225] _Cruches_ = urns, Cinerary urns. Garencières read _urnes_.

[226] _Sainte Dame_ I take to be equivalent to our English _Halidom_, consisting of _Holy_ and _Dome_—a terminative seen in kingdom and Christendom, and signifying rule or lordship. It has also been written as _Holidame_, as if referring to the Virgin Mary. Of course, if that were the correct etymology, it would furnish the exact rendering of _Sainte Dame_: but, as it is, it is equivalent. A voice feigning that of the Blessed Virgin may well be represented by a voice feigning that of religion and faith. I take this from Garencières, and not the _texte-type_.

[227] _Sublimis_, high, elevated.

[228] Latin, _obnubilare_, to cloud, obscure.

[229] Romance, _comprins_, _compris_, contained in.

[230] _Sens_ = _sans_, without.

[231] _Chief_ = _chef_, God.

[232] Latin, _munimen_, rampart.

[233] Rapis, anagram, for _Paris_.

[234] Latin, _nunquam_, never.

[235] _Arroi_, for _desarroi_, disorder.

[236] “On désigne quelquefois sous ce nom un habitant d’Alexandrie dont le véritable nom est Néopol, qui fut martyrisé sous Dioclétien. Outre ce Saint, dont la vie est complètement inconnue, les bollandistes font mention d’un Napoléon, brillant cavalier, neveu de Cardinal Fossa-Nuova, qui se tua en tombant de cheval à Rome en 1218. Saint Dominique, temoin de la douleur du pauvre cardinal, ressuscita le jeune homme. Napoléon reconnut ce bienfait en menant une vie fort chretienne et, quand il fut mort pour tout de bon, l’Église le béatifia. Toutefois, il n’avait pas sa place fixe dans le calendrier. Ce fut Pie VII. qui lui assigna pour sa fête la date du 15 août, dans le but sans doute de plaire à Napoléon Bonaparte.”—“Grand Dictionnaire Universel du dixneuvième Siècle,” par M. Pierre Larousse, tom. xi. p. 804. Paris: 1874.

[237] Latin, _tantum_, so much.

[238] Romance, _outre_, beyond.

[239] Latin, _castula_, tunic. It was a kind of petticoat worn by women next the skin, and fastened under the breasts, which it left exposed. It stands here for the goddess of Republican Liberty, which is generally represented in this dress of the Roman virgins.

[240] Latin, _incerta_, uncertain.

[241] _Par_ = _per_, Latin, by reason of.

[242] A variant is _trombe_. We are told that the modern commentators find in this word the anagram of _Rome_, by syncope of _t_ and _b_. So you might in _rompu_, by substitution of _e_ for _p_ and the elision of _u_. But as no good comes of doing either, I should suggest to leave them alone.

[243] _Le part_ is the same word as in the last quatrain, and stands here for the husband.

[244] _Solus_, Latin for _seul_.

[245] _Mary_, or _marri_, is from the old word _Marrir_, _s’affliger_, and means afflicted, full of grief.

[246] _Trahyr._ _Trahitor_, _trahiter_, from Latin _traditor_ = _traître_, English traitor.

[247] _Coutaux_ M. Le Pelletier takes as soldiers. _Par coutaux_ = _per custodes_. They betrayed him into the hands of guards. I think it may also mean _coustiller_, a soldier armed with the _coustille_, a short, straight cutlass.

[248] _Avons_ = _avus_, grandfather.

[249] A variant reads _pour_.

[250] Construe _Trop de bon temps_.

[251] _Legier_, for légèrement. Romance language.

[252] _Par_, for Latin _per_, because of.

[253] _Tantum_, Latin, very.

[254] _Venustus_, Latin, comely.

[255] _Faict_, Latin, _factus_ made.

[256] _Face_, Latin, _fax_ torch.

[257] _Aduste_, Latin, _adustus_ burnt.

[258] _Chef_, head.

[259] “Le corps et la tête placés dans un panier d’osier sont à l’instant même portés au cimetière de la Madeleine, jetés aussitôt dans une fosse profonde de douze pieds, ouverte de six, garnie et recouverte de chaux vive, et dissous immédiatement. On l’inhume auprès des personnes qui avaient péri le 20 mai, 1770, jour de la fête donnée par la ville de Paris, à l’occasion de son mariage, et auprès des Suisses morts dans la journée du 10 août.”

[260] _Ergaste_ is _estrange_ in Pierre Rigaud’s edition. Ἐργαστήρ is a workman, and M. le Pelletier says _Ergaster_ is Latin. It may be, but I do not find it in Facciolati, though _ergastulum_, a workhouse, is there given. When Marie Antoinette was in the Temple, she was reduced to working with her hands, like a workwoman (_ergaste_). But _ergaste_ is the anagram of _estrange_, the one letter _n_ excepted. Probably _estrange_ is the preferable reading, inasmuch as Marie Antoinette was an Austrian, and so _étrangère_.

[261] _Prins_, Latin, _prensus_, taken, captive.

[262] _Pellix_, Latin, _pellex_, prostitute.

[263] Qui = Latin _cui_, to which.

[264] Alquiloye = _Aquilæ lex_, law or rule of the Imperial Eagle.

[265] _Subit_ stands for _subito_, suddenly.

[266] _Tiers_ = third.

[267] _Vuidez_ = Latin, _videte_, see.

[268] _Que_ = how much.

[269] _Forneron_ = Latin, _fornax_, furnace.

[270] _A_ is the Latin _a_, privative.

[271] _Cappe_, is put for _Capet_.

[272] _En bref_, _temps_, understood.

[273] _Ne_, again used for _ni_.

[274] _Sacrés_, for _consacrés_.

[275] _Prime_, Latin, _prima_, first.

[276] _Gofres_ is deep, profound.

[277] _Cultements_, Latin, _cultus_, worship.

[278] _Tiendront fort_, will struggle hard.

[279] _Detranchés_, Romance for _tranchés_, _tête_ understood.

[280] _Infelice_, Latin, unhappy.

[281] _Le_ to be understood before _conjoindra_.

[282] _Marrit_, afflicted.

[283] _Scome_, Latin, _scomma_, gibe, taunt.

[284] _Istra_ = _ira_, will go, or will go forth.

[285] _Mont_golfier, the inventor of ærostatics.

[286] _Qui_, Latin for who, a man who.

[287] _Prins_, taken.

[288] _Sext_, for _sextus_.

[289] _Mansol_, _man_, _sol_. _Manens solus_ means celibate, or priest under vows.

[290] Latin, _incitatus_, agitated.

[291] _Pont_, pour Pontificat, or Pontifex.

[292] πολύς, grand, considerable.

[293] _Man. sol._, _manens solus_, as before.

[294] The ordo is, les deux prochains destrois fuiront le tarasc.

[295] _Prochain_ = proche parent, who partakes in a heritage.

[296] ταραχή = tumult.

[297] Romance, _destrois_, afflicted, dejected.

[298] _Mars_, god of war.

[299] _Augur_, for Roman priest.

[300] _Gens_ is Latin for _nation_.

[301] _Boreas_ is north wind, or north.

[302] _Classis_, Latin, is a body of men, used here as army.

[303] The ordo is, [où elle] aura poussé son armée trop loin vers le nord.

[304] _Seur_ = sœur.

[305] _Fatum_, Latin, fate, destiny.

[306] _Duira_, for conduira.

[307] Δαν-αρχή, Princedom of Dan. The old Kings of Denmark pretended to derive from Dan, seventh son of Jacob, it is said.

[308] Γῆς υἱός, son of earth. _Terræfilius_, giant.

[309] _Unda_, wave, _onde_.

[310] The title of this book is “Machiavel Commenté par Nᵒⁿ Buonaparte,” 1816, published by H. Nicolle, 12, Rue de Seine. I have a copy, but there is none in the British Museum. The Preface and the Introductory Discourse on Macchiavelli are full of ability. The translation of the “Prince” in French occupies the left-hand column of each page, and seems well done; on the right-hand column are given the emperor’s annotations, where they occur, otherwise it stands blank. They are severally initialled G., R. C., or E—General, Republican Consul, Emperor,—according to the period at which Napoleon may be supposed to have written them. Some of the remarks are clever, but perhaps scarcely show the grip of Napoleon; which, whether right or wrong, was always that of an iron vice. I now imagine it to be an ingenious forgery, but it is quite curious enough to merit further inquiry. This footnote, it will be seen, does not correspond with what I have said in the text. I wrote that under the impression that the document was genuine, and it would be just, if the book were true. But I leave it as it is, though it tells slightly against myself, as the contrast, between the first and second thoughts seems to me instructive. It shows that, let a man walk by right faith or by wrong, he must steer by the belief that is present with him.

[311] _Signum_, ensign, standard, or perhaps symbol of rule or domination.

[312] _Sceptrum ferre_, sceptre-bearing, reigning.

[313] _Siége_, position, situation.

[314] _En séjour_, permanent, durable.

[315] _Coq_, the Gallic cock.

[316] _Tago_, or _tango_, to touch or take, le Pelletier says; but it does not yield very good sense. Perhaps τάγμα, a regular body of soldiers, in Dion Cassius it stands for the Roman _legion_. Garencières reads here TAG _à misère_, “The _tag_ to misery,” and says it is wretchedness to come from Portugal to France, _Tag_ being the _Tagus_, on which Lisbon is situated. This might be interpreted well to mean the mischief arising to the empire from the successes of Wellington in the Peninsular war.

[317] The jay, of course, is Esop’s Fable of that bird, tricked out in finer feathers than its own. The elegant rendering by La Fontaine [iv. 9, Ed., 1838] of _Le Geai paré des plumes du Paon_ had, when Nostradamus wrote, not then taken shape. The original is so accessible, that it may suffice to give here the English version.

“A peacock moulted, and a jay.
Assumed the feathers fine,
And, strutting in a peacock-way,
Thought ‘now I look divine.’

“The first who met him laughed outright;
Others he found to sneer;
The peacocks voted him a fright,
His brother jays all quizzed ‘the sight,’
But none would have him near.

“Of biped jays like this, there are
Thousands from here to Zanzibar;
We call them ‘plagiarist!’
But hush! For setting souls ajar
Is not my line, I wist.”

[318] This curious phrase manifestly points to Napoleon wearing short hair, in military fashion, as distinguished from the flowing locks of the line of Capet,—shaven as contrasted with bewigged. This is one of the many coincidences that connect the Commonwealth of England with the French repetition of it at the Revolution. Croppies, or Roundheads, distinguished the sanctimonious insurgents of the Commonwealth from the cavaliers with their flowing locks. The Tory cavaliers wore wigs; the Whigs undermined the bewigged.

[319] _Sordide_ should be written _sordid’_, and _teste_, _test’_, if we wish the line to scan.

[320] _Puis_, for _depuis_.

[321] Latin, _per_, pendant.

[322] Latin, _vexare_, raise, inflate, according to Le Pelletier; but Facciolati gives no such meaning. “Vexed Bermoothes” gives it.

[323] _Dextera_, Latin, right hand, or sword hand.

[324] _Discorde_ should be _discord’_, or the line will not scan. These may be minor matters, but those who think them unimportant are not wise. It is an excellent rule in literature to let nothing remain wrong that can be set right by a little scholarship and industry. In the world it is very different; there you should never put anything right, for everything wrong has a host of latent friends, that will fight very savagely in its defence.

[325] _Cappe_, for Capet, says M. le Pelletier. The texte-type gives a variation here as _la Chappe_. This yields no help at all, except as showing by the variant that there is something wants altering. The line will not scan as it is. I think it should be altered to _le Cap_. If it stands for Capet it is masculine, and when it occurred before, in Quatrain 20 of Century IX., it was given as _Esleu Cap_.

[326] These two lines furnish an hyperbaton and will be best transposed, that the great Prince will have married a woman before the divine wrath falls upon him.

[327] This is equivalent to _tout d’un coup_, suddenly.

[328] This line is too long by a foot; _appuy et credit_ mean the same thing, and one should be omitted. The line should be corrected thus:

Et son appuy à un coup viendra mince.

[329] Par is Latin, _per_, throughout.

[330] Equals _qui en_.

[331] The texte-type furnishes _porter_, with _porte_ as a variant. M. le Pelletier embodies this in his text. I should replace the word that he excludes. Further, I should regard _passera_ as being a form of the Latin _patior_, and the French _pâtir_, and therefore read _pâtira_. _Porter pâtira_ will then mean suffer it to bear. _Charge_, for the scansion, should be _charg’_.

[332] _Grande_ should be _grand’_, for the scansion.

[333] _Tranchera_ should read _il tranchera_.

[334] _Esclavonie_ is put for modern Hungary.

[335] _Olestant_ is another variation of the nom fatidique de Napoleon, p. 171, from ὄλλυμι, to destroy, ὀλέσθαι.

[336] _Poussée_, for _repoussé_.

[337] _Entour_ should be _entour’_, for _entouré_.

[338] _Entour_ here is for _entourage_.

[339] _Cymbres_, κύμβη, cymbals.

[340] _Tube_, _tuba_, trumpet.

[341] _Sonnaillons_, literally, bell-ringing, but perhaps clarion may serve.

[342] This line cannot be scanned; we must read _de l’Aquillon_.

[343] This requires, for both grammar and scansion, _grande_.

[344] The _E_ in _contre_ must suffer elision, thus: _contr’_. It is right in Garencières’s.

[345] κύμβη, is a cup, usually, in Greek. M. le Pelletier gives κύμβος as a cavity or precipice. I find no such meaning as precipice. There is a great difficulty to settle the meaning here. Κύμβη means a cup, a boat, a wallet, and also, is like κύβη, the head. We should perhaps simplify the issue by confining ourselves strictly to the Latin word, _Cymba_, which is boat or skiff. Always a light boat, as in the Georgics, i. 136, where the little boats were made of _alnos cavatas_, the riverside alders hollowed out. It is rather a craft for a small lake than for the sea; as Ovid charmingly puts it:

“Non ideo debet pelago se credere, signa
Audet in exiguo ludere cymba lacu.”

But, then, what sense would it yield, “a man being between two boats, tied hand and foot?” Between two abysses, M. le Pelletier interprets; but, then, we do not find that, either in Greek or Latin, the word yields that meaning. He interprets it of Elba and St. Helena. But was an island ever called an abyss; I think as seldom as ever κύμβη meant one. Hesychius gives κοῖλος μυχός, a hollow recess, the penetralia of the women’s apartments, and he adds also βυθός, the depth of the sea, to explain κύμβος. In Martinius’s “Lexicon Etymol.,” there is a very curious quotation from Isidore, Bk. 19., which makes the _cymba_ to be the space occupied by a ship in the displacement of the water beneath it. I think out of all this we may extract a meaning for the _deux cymbes_. As two places, or recessed prisons, hollowed out of the sea, he shall be put, bound hand and foot. The line, to scan correctly, should have the word _et_ left out.

[346] _Fitine_, φυτόν, plant, scion, child.

[347] _Pocillator_ is cupbearer.

[348] _Faucer_ is fauser, to trick.

[349] _Scyphus_, cup. There is a singular appropriateness in this word, whether intended or not by Nostradamus, for Athenaeus describes the Bœotians as first using huge silver drinking-cups, or scyphi, which were denominated Herculean, because Hercules, who was very fond of feasting, used such, and first invented the cry of “no heel taps!” _ut libantes nihil in calice vini relinquerent_. The reader will bear in mind the _Hercules de Gaule_ of a former quatrain.

[350] _Itales_, _Ætalia_, Elba.

[351] _Par mer_, Gulf of Genoa.

[352] _Forains_, Latin, _foris_, strangers.

[353] _Sauf_, Latin, _sabous_, English, safe.

[354] _Sauf de_ coup de feu.

[355] _Le dard du ciel_ is the thunderbolt.

[356] Latin, _ferire_, to strike.

[357] _Estandue_ is standard.

[358] Latin, _gens_, nation.

[359] Latin, _monstrum_, prodigy.

[360] _Morts_ should be read _Meurt_, perhaps, as referring to Napoleon, who showed great delight, it is said, when he found that Wellington intended to fight him. It cannot refer, as Le Pelletier would have it to do, to the celebrated _mot_ of Cambronne or General Michel, as it has been proved that it was never uttered at all, but manufactured by a wit _après coup_.

[361] The stone is in the tree. Le Pelletier would here understand _silex_, the flint axe of primitive ages. This seems to me to be very far fetched, and I would rather read, with Garencières, the stone into thunderstone or aerolite, which seems to be far less forced.

[362] Hyperbaton: the construction is _feront entrée a Paris clos d’armée_.

[363] Latin, _clausus_, shut, cut off from the French army.

[364] _Forche_, fourchu, or forked. Latin, _furca_, hooked.

[365] _Commettre_, ellipsis for _se commettre_, to come to blows with any one.

[366] Latin, _per_, through, or by means of.

[367] Latin, _duo_, a second repetition.

[368] Consigning.

[369] _Plus fors_, read _plus forts_.

[370] _Malignus_, Latin, a criminal.

[371] _Fera_ should be _feront_, I think.

[372] _Avint_ I take to mean _avant_.

[373] _Viendra_ for _viendront_.

[374] _Onque_ should be _oncq’_, to scan.

[375] _Italie_ is the reading of the _texte-type_. Bouys reads _Itale_, and then the line will scan.

[376] _Estrangiers_ was probably pronounced as of two syllables only, but it is difficult to make this line scan.

[377] _Fautes_, to be taken as shortcomings.

[378] _Si_—very.

[379] Latin, _victor_, conqueror.

[380] Latin, _Imperator_.

[381] Latin, _factum_, action, act.

[382] _Congnu_ = connu, known.

[383] _Sang_, son or grandson.

[384] _Mathien_, Æmathien.

[385] Latinism, _factus_, made, become.

[386] Latin, _superator_, rule, dominator.

[387] Latin, _gens_, nation.

[388] _Humble_ = humiliated, perhaps _humblée_.

[389] Latin, _per_, by reason of.

[390] The order is, “venu à cause des pleurs de la superbe nation humiliée.”

[391] The original text is corrupt here, but this yields the best sense.

[392] _Desrobé_, withdrawn, or shut up.

[393] Fossano is the alternative reading, a town in the Sardinian States.

[394] Keeper of the hounds and greyhounds.

[395] Latin, _patratus_, done, committed.

[396] The Tarpeian rock at Rome.

[397] Latin, _Leo_, the astronomical sign of the Lion.

[398] _Dechassé_ = chassé, chased away.

[399] _Estrange_ has again the meaning of foreign, or out of the family.

[400] The order is _après avoir chassé le cerf aux champs_.

[401] _Donront_ = _donneront_.

[402] _Celuy qu’en_ = _Celuy qui fera qu’en_.

[403] Latin, _Claudus_, lame. This Le Pelletier has before endeavoured, with surprising dexterity, to show to be the Duc de Bordeaux.

[404] This whole line is difficult. _Araigner_, in the Romance language, is said to mean to plead and gain a cause against another. The _court_ and _long_ we had before, in Century VIII., 57, applied to Napoleon, as rising from a soldier to the long-robed Emperor; here he had to refer to Talma to teach him how to carry it. Now, again, it means the rise from a mere dignitary to Kingship.

[405] Latin, _qui_.

[406] _Sparte_ = Paris. The letters _te_ may be considered as one letter, the _e_ being mute. It will then convert, according to the rule of the anagram.

[407] _Phalange_, flag, standard, writes M. le Pelletier. As far as I can discover anything, this statement appears to be entirely erroneous. The word “phalanx,” as connected with matters military, always signifies a body of men in military order. It may in the plural even stand indefinitely for armies. In the singular it is very confusing. It may stand for a party of twenty-eight men or eight thousand (Potter’s “Antiquities,” ii. 56). Danet says six thousand men. Gibbon introduces one of his constantly recurring slovenly phrases about it,—absurd in fact, but philosophic in form. He is comparing the legion with the phalanx (i. 22), and tells us, “It was soon discovered by reflection, as well as by the event,” that it could not contend with the legion. It is obvious here, that if it had been discovered by reflection it would never have been tried by the event. This somewhat justifies the sarcasm of Porson, that schoolboys ought to be set to translate Gibbon into English. As a pleasing variety, Smith sets the number when complete at about sixteen thousand men. One feels inclined to say that these classical guides are conveying us to that ditch, which is never far to seek, when the blind are leading the blind. Martinius, in his curious “Lex. Phil.,” cites Pliny to show that the Africans first fought the Egyptians _fustius_, with staves, which they called _phalanges_ in the plural, or _phalanx_ in the singular, so that it is an African word. פלג, in Hebrew _phalag_, is a staff. Also there is a spider called _phalangion_; and as the pikes of the first five ranks in a _phalanx_ were interlaced, they were somewhat like a web of staves. Many may regard all this as extremely useless; perhaps they will concede that it is curious; if so, I shall consider it to be useful. I have long found that whatever is very curious is useful. It sets the mind agreeably in movement, and often throws a new light on things that previously had no interest and seemed obscure. At any rate, we have now established that _phalange_ is not to be rendered _standard_, but troops, army.

[408] Latin, _supremus_, the last.

[409] The order is, “Quand l’Empire sera exanclé par trois subrogés.”

[410] Latin, _subrogatus_, substituted; read _subrogés_.

[411] _Exancillatus_, subdued to, under the yoke of.

[412] Latin, _charta_, paper.

[413] Romance, _ne leu_, not read.

[414] _Sainct Memire_ is the anagram of S’Meri. To make this pass, M. le Pelletier drops one _m_ and one _e_.

[415] _Tante_ is to be read _tente_.

[416] _Leans_ is an old word for _là dedans_.

[417] Latin, _perplexus_, troubled.

[418] _Rebors_ = _rebours_; _à rebours_ is against the grain.

[419] _Ognion_ is _Ogmius_, the Celtic Mercury or Gallic Hercules. It has figured in 1792, 1848, and again after the German war, 1872. At the two first periods they put the figure of this Hercules on their five franc pieces, with that idle exergue, _Liberté, Égalité, Fraternité_. This vocable, _Ogmion_, is equivalent to _Oignon_, onion, or bulbous root of the lily. If there could be any doubt at all about this, Nostradamus has taken care to remove it, calling it _le grand mercure d’Hercule fleur de lys_, in Century X. 79.

[420] _Tiers_, pour _le tiers_ État. The third order now claiming to govern itself.

[421] _De bas haut_, for _de bas en haut_ elevated from a low to a higher and conspicuous position.

[422] Latin, _qui_, he, who.

[423] The third estate will serve, as a toe of the foot to the first rank, a stepping-stone to place.

[424] Lucca and Pisa stand for all Tuscany, where, in 1831, Louis Napoleon and Charles Bonaparte, his elder brother, had, with one cannon served by himself and a few Italian partisans, possessed himself of _Civita-Castellana_, in the Pontifical States.

[425] Latin, _decidium_, a word not of classical usage, signifying ruin, or a fall.

[426] Romance _sang_, family.

[427] Latin, _regnum_, empire.

[428] _Lectoyre_, a town in France, in the department of Gers. Garencières adopts the variant Lectoure, which he says is a town in Gascony. The word occurs again, Century VII. 12, and there he says it is a city of Guyenne. _Lectora_ was the Latin name. It was a place of great strength, and picturesque; but, unless we can find it to be an anagram, there is nothing to connect the town in any way with the fortunes of Louis Napoleon.

[429] The word _pleira_, is of course, only an archaic transposition of _pliera_. The line here can in no way be made to scan, being two syllables or one whole foot short. I would suggest it be read Nepveu (du sang) par peur pleira l’enseigne.

[430] _Ogmion_ has been explained already to be the symbol of the French Republic.

[431] The _texte-type_ reads _et amy au_.

[432] _My-hom_, Le Pelletier says, is _demy-homme_, a man of low birth, and Roy _de longue_ = _de vielle race_. I prefer to read _de longue vie_, and understand the King of Prussia; and _my-hom_ I take to be the bivalve-man, or Bismarck.

[433] Latin, _classis_, band; à classe, by a band [sic?]. It might be better here to render _classe_ as “crash,” κλάσις, _brisure_. _De nuict la classe_, a crash by night.

[434] Latin, _arca_, chest, or dam.

[435] Latin, _demolitus_, demolished.

[436] Latin, _antecaptus_, seized beforehand.

[437] Latin, _dux_, leader.

[438] Latin, _unus_, the first.

[439] Latin, _cavea_, theatre.

[440] Romance, _incogneus_, unknown.

[441] The four were Orsini, Pieri, de Rudio, and Gomez.

[442] Greek, Δαν-ἀρχή, as we had it before (_v._ p. 289).

[443] _Frise_, Hanover.

[444] Latin, _dependere_, to weigh out, spend.

[445] M. le Pelletier calculates that the golden mark was equal to 250 grammes, or 100,000 marks = 10,000,000 francs.

[446] Latin, _oratio_, harangue.

[447] Romance, _prins_, _pris_, taken.

[448] Latin, _decisus_, cut off.

[449] _Delà_, for _au delà_.

[450] Italian, _vappa_, scamp.

[451] Latin, _subito_, suddenly.

[452] _Il tournera_, for _il fera tourner_.

[453] Latin, _propinque_, at hand, near.

[454] “Stands some five feet ten or more; a man of strong solid stature, and dignified, now partly military carriage: the expression of him valour and devout intelligence,—energy and delicacy on a basis of simplicity. Fifty-four years old, gone April last; ruddy-fair complexion, bronzed by toil and age; light brown hair and moustache are getting streaked with grey. A figure of sufficient impressiveness;—not lovely to the man-milliner species, nor pretending to be so. Massive stature; big massive head, of somewhat leonine aspect, ‘evident workshop and storehouse of a vast treasury of natural parts.’ Wart above the right eyebrow; nose of considerable blunt aquiline proportions; strict yet copious lips, full of all tremulous sensibilities, and also, if need were, of all fierceness and rigours; deep loving eyes, call them grave, call them stern, looking from under those craggy brows, as if in life-long sorrow, and yet not thinking it sorrow, thinking it only labour, and endeavour:—on the whole, a right noble lion-face, and hero-face.” (Carlyle, “Cromwell Letters,” ii. p. 435).

INDEX.

“’Tis the compass that you steer by through a book.”—Οὔτις.

A

Abb’s Head, St., 206

Abraham, astrologer, 59

——, habitation of, 65

Achem in Sumatra, 66

Adriatic, _Austria_, 69

Advent, _v._ _Vulgar_

Æmathion, 151, 156, 157, 160, 162

——, Napoleon, 163

——, Louis XVIII., 324, 325

Ætalia Elba, 248;
Itales, 311

Africa, 321

Agen, 6

Agoult, Marquis de, 249

Aix, 9

Ajaccio, 291

Albanins, 201, 203

——, Albanois, 191

Albert, Jeanne de, mother of Henri IV., 128

Alexander, 80;
son of Apollo, 151

Algeria, 332

Algol Caput, 136

Almanacs, 9, 36

Aloi, 118

Alphabet, 70

Alps, 346

Alquiloye, 268, _v._ _Aquilon_

American, the, 141

Amiens, 134

Ampulla, 242, 308

Anagram used as mask, xiii.;
various, 29

——, Anagramme Herne, 246

——, Nicole = Lincoln, 172

Angels, evil, 46;
angeli, 193

Angles, 193

Angoulême, Duc de, 264, 269

Anthoni pont, 313

Anti-Christ, reign of, 12, 37;
empire of, 62

——, second antichrist, 76;
infernal prince, 72

——, moon symbol of, 239

——, Saturne, 203, 206, _v._ _Faith_

Antwerp, 173

Apennines, 318

Apollo Philesius, 80

Apollyon, 171

April, Calends of, 83

Aqua solis, 193

Aquilon, 305, _v._ _Alquiloye_, _v._ _North_

Arabs, 334

Aristotle minced, 235;
understanding, 255

Arles, 146, 147

Armada, 182, 190

Arras, 220

Artaxerxes, 308

_Artiste en pronostics_, 40

Artois, Comte de, 327

Assembly, _v._ _National_

Assignats, 231

Astrologers too much faith, 36;
astrologi, 76;
astrologue, 94

—— Gauric, 93

——, La Brousse, 135

—— César, 136

Astrology needful to medicine, 9;
judicial, 30, 48

——, nocturnal calculations, 56

——, revolution of stars, 42, 235

Atheism, atheistic democracy, 239

——, levelling spirit of, 35, _v._ _Fifth Monarchy_

Atomic theory, xxiii.

—— atoms, xxiv.

Augur = Pope, 283

Augustus, climacteric, 18

Ausonius, poet, 196

Ausonne, League at, 194

Austerlitz, sun of, 287;
Borodino, 302;
claptrap, 320

Austria, 346

Austrians, white, 305;
Adriatic, 69

Aventine, 280

Avénement, commun, _v._ _Vulgar Advent_

Averroes, 3

Avicenna, 3

Avignon, Nostradamus, at school, 3, 281

Azostains, 70

B

Baalzephon, 217

Babylon, Paris, 305;
new Babylon, 63

——, Babel, 306, 319

Bacchantes, 204;
fury, 43

—— la maynade, 201

Bacon, Lord, death Henri II., 94;
hempe, 170

Balance of power, regne de, 183, 185

——, Hume on, 187

Balloon, 281

Bannier bust, Cromwell, 355

Barabbas, 230

Barbaroux, 251

Barcelona, Mons Jovis, 61

——, Barselonne, 131;
George I., 222

Barque of St. Peter, 193, 302

Barreaux, Des, 138

Barricades, quatrain on, 120

Bartholomew’s Day, St., quatrain on, 106;
Favin on, 112

—— Henri IV., 128;
knife of, 154

Bassano, Duc de, 309

Bastard, Cromwell, 172

Bastarnan, Poland, 166;
Basharion, 225

Bastille tournament, 92, 121, 126;
Louis Philippe, Paris, 335

Bates on prayer, 32

Beachy Head, 159

Bear at Bridge Foot, 218

Béarnais, 129

Beelzebub, 295

Bees, 294;
Abeilles, 308;
liqueur des, 311, _v._ _Wasps_

Bernard, Mont St., 318

Berri, Duc de, 269, 317, 327

Berthier, General, 282

Bethune, 220

Beza epigram, 16

Bibliography of Nostradamus, 25

Bird, Edward, 354

Birds, strange; Imperial eagles, 73

Biron, sixain, 132

Bisance, 219

Bismarck, 189, 341

Black for white, 232

Blaye, 160

Blois, 12;
Château de Blois, 122

Bonanni, 109

Bonaparte, 287;
family, thirteenth century, 289

——, Charles, 290, 337

——, _v._ _Napoleon_

Books burnt by Nostradamus, 48

Bordeaux, Duc de, 269, 328;
gros mastin, 328, 330

——, Claude, 329, 333

Bordeaux, Ausonne, 196

Boreas, 283, _v._ _North_

Borodino, 301, 308

Boscobel, 209

Bosphorus, 65

Bouillé, Marquis de, 187, 246, 249

Bouillon, Cardinal, 219

Boulogne, 321;
medal struck, 322

Bourbon, Cardinal de, 12;
_mot_, 114

Bourg la reyne, 313

Bourges, 156

Bottomless pit, 311

Bouys, 159, 175, 178, 182, 236, 243, 253, 317, 323

Bowels, 207

Branchidæ, 87

Branchus, 77, 82

Brantôme, 114

Breda, 201

Breval’s Travels, 356

Brevity, 38, 102, 144, 169, 244;
mitré, 252, 315

Bright, Quaker, 188

Britain, 151;
Great Britain, 170;
quatrain, 194

Brocksburn, 206

Broggi Restaurant, 344

Brompton, 4

Brosse, la, 135

Brumaire, 289, 295, 296

Brussels, 143, 173

Brutus, 250

Burnet, Thomas, xiii.

Butler, Samuel, 351

Buckingham, Duke, 199

Buget, F., 13

Burns, xvii.

Butcher, Cromwell, 177;
Napoleon, 236

Butler, Bishop Thomas, 35

C

Cadiz, Bay, 191;
Gaddir, 192

Cæsar, 297, 301, 302

Cagliostro, 38

Caiaphas, x.

Calendar, Gregorian, 84;
rectified, 109

California, 73

Cambresis Treaty, 14, 89

Cambronne, 312

Campan, Madame, 247, 250

Camisards, War of, 160

Caniga, Don B. de, 138

Cannes, Napoleon lands at, 311

Cap. le grand, 130;
État du Caput, 153;
Cap. Esleu, 245, 274;
Capet, 299, 306;
blonde, 217;
Debonnaires, 317;
Fair Capet, 332

Capitolinus, 327

“Captif,” 155

Carlyle less than Coleridge, ix., 176;
hero, 180, 206, 213

——, Cromwell portrait, 352

Carlos, Don, strangled, 333

Carpathian thread, 87

Casau, Charles de, 131

Cases, Las, 289

Castulon, 239

Catholics, Roman, 229, _v._ _Church_

Cavalier, Jean, 160

Cavaignac, 338

Causes, knowledge of, xxiii., 47

Celibacy, mansol, 280, _v._ _Marriage_

Celique, 193

Celtique for France, 283

“Centuries” begin, 7

César, Astrologer, 136

Chaldaic oracles, xxiv.

Champagne, Philippe de, 146

Chance, 174, 245, 278;
Duc de Berri, 327, _v._ _Coincidence_

Charlemagne, 291

Charles I., xvi., 37, 171;
quatrain on, 172, sold, £400,000

——, Quatrain, execution, 173;
trial, 175;
quatrain, 196

Charles II., wit, 141, 171;
Breda, 102;
crowned (1654), 208;
Worcester, 209;
restoration, 210

Charles V., Emperor, 94, 229, 239;
sacks Rome, 303, 319

Charles IX., 14, 96;
quatrain, 103;
Condé, 106;
character, 107

Charles X., 268, 283;
he hunts, 328

Charles X., Cardinal Bourbon, 129

Charms, 85;
rites, 87

Chartres, 313;
Duc de, 336

Chavigny, J. Aimes de, 2;
studies Nostradamus twenty-eight years, 21

Chequers Court, 354

Cherra, 159

Chien, or gun hammer, 148

Children excluded from prophecy, 39

Christianity of gold, 152

Chronology, _v._ _Time_

Church persecuted, 71;
clergy, 275;
state of, 63

—— suppressed, 276;
monks, 276;
temples, 277

—— Priests, 297;
Napoleon, sponge, 297, 298

——, _v._ _Catholics_

Cicero, 286

Cinq Mars Conspiracy, 145

Cipher, 137

Civil War (1557), 98, 115

Civita-Castellana, 337

Clairvoyance, 40, 81, _v._ _Table-turning_

Clarendon, Earl, 200

Classis, 283

Clement VII., 303

Clement Danes, St., 354

Clément, Jacques, 100;
quatrain, 124;
le doux, 106

Clerepeyne, 142

Clèves, Princesse de, 93

Climacteric, 17, 18

Cock-moon, 238;
Cock, 283

“Cogito ergo sum,” xxiii.

Cognac, Treaty of, 196

_Corn’ et cry_, 192

Coincidences, 1;
Henri IV., 19;
Philip II., 162, 335

——, Le Torcey, 340, _v._ _Chance_

Coleridge as poet, viii.;
on Jews, xiii.;
on Truth, xxvii.

Coligny, Admiral, 104, 110, 112

Colours, red and purple, xix.;
French flags, xx.;
green, 233, _v._ _Flag_, _v._ _Red_

Commun Avénement, _v._ _Vulgar Advent_

Communion, Henri III., 115;
Clément, 125;
traitor at prayers, 138

Compiègne, 101

Confession, auricular, 119

Conciergerie, 96, 266

Condé, Prince, 105;
strangled, 333

Congress, 189

Conspiracy, 64;
Cinq Mars, 145

Conscription, 285;
Tag, 292;
Classis, 283

Convention, 277

Cooper, Samuel, Cromwell, 351

Copperspath, Pass at, 205

Corinth, 214

Corsica, 155;
Charles Bonaparte, 290;
Napoleon born, 236, 286

Covenanters, £400,000, 173;
Service-book and Solemn League, 198

Cowper, 154

Cranfield, Lionel, 199

Cretans, the two, 69

Crisiaque, 40

Critics, xxv.;
lines on, 76

Cromwell, xvi., xvii.;
belies himself, 168;
Lonole, 170;
bastard, 172;
Nostradamus on, 176;
Protectorate, 177;
butcher, 177;
portraiture of, 178, 351;
dissolute, 179;
well-born, 179;
Church lands, 179;
funeral, 180;
arbitrates, 189, 202;
slaves, 207;
_soldat simple_, 208, 297;
death quatrain, 210;
Protector, 212;
Fox, 212;
saint, 212;
epileptic, 301;
bust, 354;
success, 356

Cromwell, Robert, father of Protector, 179

Curious, the, xxvi.;
astrology of D. D., 224, 288

—— Macchiavelli’s “Prince,” 290

—— strangeness, 135, 174, 186, _v._ _Coincidences_

—— episode, sound, 217;
phalanx, 332

—— Book of Oracles, a curiosity, 347

Cymbes, 306

Cyphe, 307

Cyprus, 104

D

Dame, the great, 60;
St. Paul’s, 214;
Sainte Dame, 233;
Government, 223;
insensate dame, 304

——, republic, 343

Dantisco, N. G. A., “Rerum in Galliâ,” 195

Death sought and not found, 311;
fear of, 135

Debonnaire, Capets, 317

Dedications, 14;
to his son, 42;
“Luminary Epistle,” 65

Deluge, 51

Democracy, beast, xx.;
atheistic, 239;
Nostradamus, 347

Demons corporeal, 83;
_lingua demonum_, 185;
speech of, 220;
_v._ _Guardian_

Demosthenes, 188

Denis, St., 101;
violated, 233

Denmark, 289

Departments for Provinces, 232

Descardes, 138

Descars, 94

Descartes, _cogito_, etc., xxiii., 330

Diamond necklace, 260

Didyma, 80

Directory, 282, 296, 318

Disorder, method of the book, 275

Doon hill, 206

Doria, Charles, 131

Drake, Cadiz Bay, 182

Dubarri, 267

Dunbar battle, 205

Duphot, General, 282

Dutch war, 214

E

Eagles, Imperial, 73, 186, 238, 283;
aigle poussée, 304

Earthquake, 242

East wind, 217;
Napoleon, 286;
l’oriental, 318;
Sultan of, 66

Eastern kings, 66;
Soliman II., 98;
Eastern Question, 334

Ecclesiasticus, 79

Ecstasy, 40

Edinburgh quatrain, 201, 205

Education, board schools, 182

Edward, VI., 184

Égalité, Duc d’Orléans, 273

Egypt, 163;
Oriental, 318

Elba, 240, 308;
place of the air, 64, 307;
Itales, 311

Elias, tradition of, xxiv.

Eliot, George, 4

Elizabeth, Queen, 103;
excommunicated again, 309, 168;
quatrain, 190

Elizabeth, Madame, 268

Embalming, 147

Emmanuel, Duke Savoy, 14

—— I., Victor, 279, 342

—— IV., Charles, 279

Emperor, 236

Encyclopædists, 233

England, xvi.;
chapter on, 166;
seven governments, 166;
Bouillé on, 187

English red, 305

Envers à l’, 173, 175, 228

Epaminondas, 188

Ephesus, 215

Epigram on Condé, 106

Epilepsy, Herculean, 47;
in general, 300;
_divin mal_, 300

Episode, _v._ _Curious_

“Epistle, Luminary,” to Henri II., 12, 13, 55, 257

Ergaste, 263

Escurial, 240

Essex, Lord, 191

Estrange, 320;
Austrian, 321

_État l’, c’est moi_, 153

Eternity, 47, 49

_Être Suprème_, 277

Eugène, Prince, 220

Evelyn, Cromwell portrait, 353

Evil predicted, 39

Eye is not sight, 80, 255, _v._ _Soul_, _v._ _Visible_

F

Fact, xii.

Faithorne, 351

Faim, Castle of, 24;
Baron Faim, 309

Fairfax, General, 202

Faith, 34;
Nihilist, 36, _v._ _Antichrist_

Fame, 58

Fanchese, Don, 137

Fate, Fates, 287

Feuchères, Baronne de, 333

Ferrare, 268

Ferrière’s, la, squadron, 155

Ferte sous Jouare, la, 139

Fifth Monarchy, 213, _v._ _Atheism_

Fire, flame of, 45;
subtle, 46;
fire, 51;
of London, 214

Firearms, 148

Fireballs, 214

Flag, tricolour, xx., 279;
eagles, 304;
phalange, 331;
white, 269;
gold, blue, red, 332, _v._ _Colours_

Flame, thin, 48, 50;
flambe exigue, 76;
of fire, 45;
missive, 52;
human flame, 233

_Fleurs-de-lis_, 15, 151;
Ognion, 334

Fleurus, 281

Floods (1607), 195

Florence, 100, 101;
Bonaparte family, 289;

—— Bust of Cromwell, 356

Fontaine, la, 294

Fontainebleau, 302;
abdication at, 309

Fontenelle, 330

Forces, God of, 295

Forehead, lifted up, 50

Fossan, Sardinia, 326

Fossen, 269

France, kingdom of Libra, 185;
dame insensée, 304

Francis I., 196

François II., 102

Frankland, Sir Thos., 354

Frederic William, 342

French vanity, 140, 141;
Rex Christianissimus, 153;
_grand peuple_, 231;
language, 293;
_fière gent_, 312;
gent superbe, 324

Friday, Cromwell dies, 211

——, Good, 80, 84

Fronde, 158

Futurity, _v._ _Prophecy_

G

Gaddir, Cadiz, 192

Gallic, Ogmion, _v._ _Ogmion_

Garencières’ primer, 26

Garibaldi, 342;
vapin, 346

Gand, 173

_Gauche, jugement à_, 175

Gaul for France, 283

Gaule, switch, 318

Gauric, Luc, 93

Genelle, Anne Ponce, second wife, 7

Genius, guardian, 83;
familiar spirit, 78

Genoa, 100;
Gulf of, 311

_Gentleman’s Magazine_, Nostradamus, vii.

George I., James I. his great-grandfather, 194

——, Quatrain on, 222, 223;
peace, 224

George’s, St. Day, 211

George, conspiracy, 317

Gibbon, 331

Girondists, 274

Glaive, cité au, 261

God withdraws, 234;
in history, 31;
operating, 46

Godwin, 176

Gog and Magog, 65

Gold, Christianity, 152;
corruption by, 186;
England, 187;
wealth, xxix., _v._ _Riches_

Golden Age, 273

Golgotha, 327

Gomez, 344

Gospel, Boulevard of Rochelle, 114

Gostling, 355

Government ends with George I., 223 (La Dame)

_Grand peuple_, French, 231

_Grande cité_, _v._ _Paris_

Grêlet, Michel, 110

Great Britain, _v._ _Britain_

Green colour, 233

Gregory XIII., 108, 109

Greigne, 156

Grogne, 155

Griffin, 305

Grose, Captain, 355

Groslot, Jérôme, 104

Grotius, 46

Guardian angel, 46, 83, _v._ _Demon_

_Guespes et mouches_, 307, _v._ _Vespres_

Guillotin, Dr., 261;
_couperet_, 248

Guion, 289, 292, _v._ _Ogmion_

Guise, death of, 100, 113, 116;
quatrain, 122;
family, 129

Gustavus Adolphus, 224, 306

Guynaud, “Concordance Nostradamus,” 92;
queer criticism, 149

H

Hair white in a night, 247

Halidom, 233

Hannibal, 229;
Napoleon, 319

Hanover, House of, 183

Hapsburgh, House of, 189

Harrison, Frederic, 179, 351

Haslerig, 205

Head shaven, 116, 296, 300, 303

Hébert, 344

Hegira (A.D. 621), 59

Helena, St., 307, 308, 316

Hempe, 170

Henri II., xv.;
a patron, 10;
killed, 13;
“Luminary Epistle,” 55;
death, 91, 239

—— III., xv., 97;
murder, 99;
civil war, 115;
Poland, 116;
quatrain, 117;
death, 125

—— IV., xv., 19;
Béarnais, 129;
popularity, 140;
Ogmion, 335;
chapter on, 128;
abjures, 130;
sixains, 133

—— V., 13, 328

Henriade, 141

Henry VIII., 196

Heptades, 185

Hercules, Celtic, 289, 292;
Scyphus, cup, 307;
_v._ _Ogmion_

Herne, 245

Hero, Carlyle’s, 180, 213

Herod, a sort of prophet, x.;
a god, 230

Herschel, xi.

Highlanders, 207;
_haut lieu_, 205;
Royal Army, 202

Hières, Island of, 65

Historical fragments, 89

History, Philosophy of, 31;
happy country, 39;
predicts evil, 39;
lies, 122;
re-written to meet Nostradamus, 300

Hodgson, 206

Holbein, 330

Holland, 173

Holy Spirit, 28

Honesty, 232

Honnorat, St., Island, 131

Houbraken’s Cromwell, 352

House of Commons, 243;
Babel-room, 287

Howard, Lord, 191

Hughes, Letter of Mr., 354

Hume, on balance of power, 187;
miracles, 145

Hungary, 303

Husne, tower, 129

I

Idées Napoléoniennes, 338

If, Château d’, 131

Ignorance, letters will suffer, 51, 54

Immortality of man, 263

Impeachment, 200

Imposture, 36, 40, 89

Inspiration, 30, 43;
melancholy, 50, 90

Interpretation, no interpreter of the quatrains, 56

——, more might be interpreted, 89;
mode of, 254

Ireland, 158;
discontent, 198

Isle, Roget de l’, 285

Itales, Elba, 311

Italy, Ausonne, 194;
emperor born, 236

J

Jacobine Clubs, 126

Jamblicus, 82

James I., 171;
great-grandfather George I., 194;
wisdom, 200

—— II., 158, 218

Jansenism, 158

Jant, Chevalier de, 143, 144

Janus Gallicus, 113

Japan, Christian, 109

Jarnac, 106

Jay, fable of, 294;
Talma teaches Napoleon, 329

Jesuit College motto, 109;
Jesuit clubs, 126;
Charles Emmanuel IV., 279

Jews, Coleridge, xiii.;
prophets, xiv.

Jodele epigram, 11

Joel, Punic chronicle of, 60

Joinville, Prince de, 341

Josephine, 300, 321

Joubert, Étienne, 143, 144

Jovialists, 66

Journaux, 229;
simply days, 319

Jury, 265

Justice, Court of, 265

K

Kean, Edmund, ix.

King’s evil, 58;
parliament of kings, 189;
king of French, 247

Kimber, “Life of Cromwell,” 354

L

Lafin, 132

Lamballe, Princesse de, 248

Landmarks, 232

Languedoc Canal, 137

Lasche, 179

Latin race to triumph, 62;
world, 72

Launay, Seigneur de, 6

Laud, Archbishop, 197

Laurel, forked rod of, 82

Law, the speculator, 231

Law Courts, 287

Lawyers, 109, 139;
Gregory XIII., 109

League, 194, 195

Lectoyre, 338

Leibnitz, Egypt, 163;
House of Hapsburgh, 189

Lely, Sir P., 351;
“Warts and all,” 353

Lenthall, Speaker, 207

Lepanto, 105, 335

Lerma, Duke, 137

Lesley, General, 206

Levelling spirit, 35

Libertat, Pierre, 131

Liberty, leap of, 65, 180;
of conscience, 194;
phantom, 223;
Castulon, 238;
cap of, 249, 252;
Nantes, 278;
tyranny, 294

Libra, France, 185

Light, cerebral and latent, 40

Lion-sun, 238

Liturgy, English, 197

Livy, 15, 19

Lombardy, 346

Lombart, Pierre, 353

Long and short robe, 297, 329

London, 158;
senate of, 173;
fire of, 214;
thirty of, 218

Lonole, Cromwell, 170

Los, _laus_, glory, 140

Louis XIII., Montpellier, 3;
chapter on, 142;
death, 147;
the Just, 185

—— XIV., son, 119;
king, 147;
chapter on, 150;
Canal, Languedoc, 157;
_v._ _Æmathion_

—— XV., chapter on, 164

—— XVI., xx. (1792), 69;
people rise, 237;
chapter on, 241;
flight, 247;
mitré, 251;
Captif libère, 256;
quatrain portrait, 259;
quicklime, 261

—— XVII., Toulon taken in name of, 273, 296

—— XVIII., 268, 283;
Roy d’Europe, 305;
blond, 316;
Duc de Berri, 317;
chapter on, 324;
Désiré, 325;
_foye en cuisine_, 325

Louis, St., Day, 211

Louis Philippe, coincidence, 162, 335;
chapter on, 324, 330;
wolf, 328;
six quatrains, 329;
seventeen years, 335, 338

Louvicamp, Curé de, 144

Louvel, 317, 327

Love of near things, 235

Luc, St., 23

Luciennes, Château de, 26

Lucky day, Cromwell, 211

“Luminary Epistle,” 12, 13;
translation, 55, 257

Lusitanians, 181;
_v._ _Portuguese_

Lymphatics, 43

Lyons, Plancus, 70

M

Macchiavelli, Prince, 290

Macelin, Cromwell, 177

Madelaine, 262

Magic, occult process, xiv.;
books burnt, 30, 48;
chapter on, 75;
formula, 76

Mahomet, 301;
Mahometical dreams, 52

Malta, 65

Mammon, 21, 129

Mansol, 280, 282

Mansuetus, St., Day, September 3rd, 211

Marlborough, Duke, 219, 220

Marcellinus, 86

Marguerite, St., Island, 131

Marie Louise, 300, 309, 321

—— Therèse, 158, 327

—— Antoinette, 247, 265, 268;
death, 273

Marine cité, 272 (Toulon), 296

Maritime cité (London), 214

Mark’s, St., Venice, 289

Marriage, 119, 120;
republican, 278

Mars, heroical, 213

Marseilles, St. Hières, 65;
taken by Spain, 131;
Phocen, 157;
Napoleon’s return, 311

Marseillaise sung, 230;
de l’Isle, 285

Mary, Queen, 183, 184

Massacre of Protestants, 199

Mastiff, 63;
mastin le gros, Sirius, 328

Materialism, 236

Mathien, _v._ _Æmathion_

Maurepas, 269

Mayenne, Duc de, 123, 129

Maynooth grant, 167

Mazarin, 35, 150

Medici, Catherine de, 38;
curious arts, 94;
quatrain on, 96, 111;
death, 115;
regency, 116;
Guise, 123

Medina, Duke of, 192

Menade, 201, 204

Mendosus, 128

Menehould, St., 246, 249

Meri, St., 333

Meslée, infelice, 278

Mesopotamia, 69

Metaplasm, 280;
Herne, 246

Method, 253;
disorder, 275;
_v._ _Order_

Metz, 151

Michel, General, 312

Middle Ages, 36

Milk and honey, 242

Millenary, seventh, 57

Milton, xxvii., 38, 124;
contrary to Cromwell, 180

Minerva, favouring, 57

Mines, Spanish-American, 231

Ministers, 67;
in eighteen years, 259

Miollis, General, 284, 302

Miracle on Miracle, 252

Mirror, 60

Mithras, 249, 251

Mitre, 249

Mob, triumphant, 230, 259, _v._ _People_

Molière, 175

Monarchy, decline of French, 164;
Fifth, 213

Monks, 276, _v._ _Church_

Mons Jovis, 61, 70

Mont, St. Jean, 313

Montagnards, 274

Montagne, la, 328;
Tarpeian rock, 326

Montenotte, 228, 289

Montesquiou, 105, 106

Montfauçon gibbet, 111

Montgaillard, de, 262

Montgolfier, 280

Montgomery, Earl, 91, 92;
arrest, 95

Montmédi, 246, 256

Montmirail, 248

Montmorency, Lord Constable, 11;
the great, 142

Montpellier, 3

Moon, blue, 206

Morals, soul’s instinct, 311

Morny, Duc de, 342

Moscow, 285, 304, 310

Motret, M., 143

Munster, Terburg, 173

My-hom, 341

N

Names anticipated, 28, 90;
new names, 288;
names of rank, 245

Nancy, 142, 151

Nantes, 277

Napoleon, abdication, 309

——, Æmathion, 163

——, Analogues, Charlemagne, 291

—— ——, Charles V., 229

—— ——, Cromwell, 208

—— ——, Hannibal, 229, 319

—— Apollyon, Olleon, 171

—— ——, Destroyer, xx.

—— ——, Guion, 289, 292

—— ——, Hercules, Gallic, xxi., 289

—— Bonaparte, dropped for Nap, 288

——, Brumaire, 295

—— Butcher, 236

——, Condottiere stock, 290

—— Conspiracy, Georges’, 317

——, Consecration and torment, quatrain, 306

—— Eagle, 304

——, Epilepsy, 300

——, Epithets, butcher, 236

—— ——, Jupiter, 64

—— ——, Mastiff, 63

—— ——, Hercules, _v._ _Apollyon_ above

—— ——, King of Babylon, 305

—— —— Nom farouche, 287

—— ——, Oriental, l’, 318

—— —— Tête rasée, 296, 303

——, _Étoile mon_, 302

——, Guespes et mouches, 307

——, male sex destroyed, 303

——, Bouys, 159, _v._ _Bouys_

——, chapter on his rule, 286

—— family, thirteenth century, 289, 290

——, King Paris, 306

——, King Rome, Denmark, 289

——, Lieutenant, Consul, Emperor, 297

——, Napoleonism seventy-three years, xix.

—— Nobility, Montenotte, 289

——, quatrain on, 302;
a weight on France, 292

——, rats eat his heart, 311

——, _soldat simple_, 208, 297

—— _Nez fourchu_, 316

——, pyramids, forty centuries, 287

—— sympathy, 308

—— Talma, 329

—— _Vespres et mouches_, 295

——, Waterloo quatrain, 312

——, St., August 15th, 237;
anecdote, 238

—— II., Duc de Reichstadt, 338

—— III., Boulogne, 322, 336

——, Idées Napoléoniennes, 338

—— Nepveu du sang, 338, 340

—— quatrain, 337

——, St., August 15th, 237

Narbon Camisards, 162;
Count, 248

National Assembly, 231, 247

—— Assignats, 231

—— departments, 233

—— Saulce, 250

National Convention, 266

——, chapter on, 272

—— decree, 277

Nature, voice of, 231;
overcome, 318

Navarre, 341

Nelson, _rubuit æquor_, 72;
Trafalgar, 182

Néopol, St., 237

Nepveu du sang, 338

Nero, 273

Newton, Sir Isaac, bust, 354

Nicole = Lincoln, 172

Neil, O’Phelim, 199

Nîmes, 160

Noll, old, Cromwell, 171

Non-intervention, 189

Norlaris, 128

Normandy, Duke of, 268

North, two Lords of, 67

——, boreas, 283, _v._ _Aquilon_

——, ignorance of the, 70

——, kings of, 71

—— Russia, 66, 72

Nose, a curious phrase, 56

Nostradamus Almanacs, 9

——, appearance, personal, 20

——, _artiste en pronostics_, 40

—— birth, 1

—— brevity, 169, 244, _v._ _Brevity_

—— brothers, 22

——, Charles IX., 14

—— dates, mode of stating, 190

—— death, 15

——, democracy against it, 347

——, equal he has none, vii., 90

—— epitaph, 19, 28

—— fame, future, 58

—— familiar spirit, 81

—— family, Jewish, 2

—— Gold, two hundred crowns, 12

—— Gout, 12

——, history to be re-written for, 300

——, horoscope princes, 12

—— imposture, xiii., 36, 89, 177

—— integrity, 97;
good faith, 111

—— made celebrated by Henri II.’s death, 92

—— marriage, second, 7

—— medicine, 36, 37

—— method, xii., 184;
sequence, 102, 243, _v._ _Order_

—— name known, 33

—— oracles published, 256

——, opinions on, have been omitted, 35

——, passivity of, 184, 347;
no partisan, 314

—— primer, oracles used as, 26

—— prophecy begun, 7;
not like Hebrew, 39

—— —— presage, capable of, 57

—— ——, pig prophecy, 24

—— psychological interest, 75

——, publish, slow to, 36

——, Sommerive, Earl, 156

——, spirit, his, described, 38

—— spiritual sons, 42

—— style, 144, 263, _v._ _Method_ above

——, time, no sense of, 178

—— visions, see by, 275

—— year (3797), 50

Nostradamus César, 22;
préface à mon fils, 42

O

Obedience, veneration, 223

——, reverence in England, 182

——, must work and serve, 230

——, revolt under Louis XVI., 241

Obscurity and prophecy one, 31

Œdipus, 176

Ognion, _v._ _Ogmion_

Oignon, 334, _v._ _Ogmion_

Ogmion, Gallic, 70, 334;
Henri IV., 335, 341

Olestant, Olleon, xix., 171, 303, _v._ _Pit_

Olleon, xix.;
Cromwell, 171

Omens not done, 197

O’Neil, Phelim, 199

Opinions on Nostradamus not treated of, 35

Oracles, French king’s study Nostradamus, 33

—— ceased not on Good Friday, 88, 151, 347

Oratory, Napoleon’s, 286

——, England beware of, 187

——, orators, 242, _v._ _Speech_

Order, sequence, 102, 158, 174, 243, 315

——, method, 253;
disorder, 275

Orges _faire ses orges_, 212

Orleans, Duke of, 244;
death, 273, 333;
_dort leans_, 333

Orsini, 343

Oste, l’, Nostradamus, 132, 136

Oxygen, 266

P

Pagan tendency of Nostradamus, 40, 41

Pampotan, 69;
England, 181

——, _rubuit æquor_, 27

Pan is dead, 88

Pancras, Old, 175

Paper money, 231

Paris, siege (1590), 100;
city of sword, 108, 261

——, great city, 120, 282

——, cité à feu, 343;
Jesuit clubs, 126

——, Babylon, New, 63, 305;
in disarray, 237

——, assault of, 282;
entered, 314;
dechassé, 328

—— Sparte, 329;
Bastille, 335

—— Rapis, 237;
ship, emblem of, 158

——, allies in, 309

Paris, Comte de, 341

Parma, 101

Parliament, impeachment, 200

Pascal on opinion, xxviii.

Patience of an interpreter, 255

Pau, 341

Paul’s, St., burnt, 214

Pavillon, Lord, 11

Peace, the great, 63

Pelissier, 332

Pelletier, M. le, secret purpose of book, 13

Pellix, 264, 266

Pempotam, 181;
Pampotan, 69

Penance, 119

Pentecost, 45

People “blood be on us,” 259

——, democracy, antichrist, 239;
revolution, 347

—— eaux, 223;
idiots, 229

—— earthquake, 242;
intoxicated, 201

——, many-headed, 200

——, mob, 230

——, tyrant comes, 169

Perouse, chef, Sixtus V., 99

Perspective, 330

Peter the Great, 167;
his will, 186

Peter, St., ship of, 193;
Pierre, 281;
piscature, 302

Phalanx, 231

Philip II., 92, 130, 131;
coincides with Louis Philippe, 333

—— III., 161

—— IV., 153, 158, 173

—— V., 153, 161;
overthrown, 162

Philippe d’Orléans, 164

Philippe, _v._ _Louis Philippe_

Philo Judæus, vii.

Philosopher, Plato Pry, 145

Philosophy in doubt, 34;
in history, 31

——, sentimental, 233, _v._ _Rousseau_, _v._ _Science_

Phocen, Marseilles, 157

Photius “Amphilochia,” ix.;
heretical, x.

Phrygian bonnet, 249

Piedmont, Adriatic, 70

Pierce, Edward, 354

Pierre, en l’arbre, 312

Pillar pulled down, Vendôme?, 65

Piracy, literary, 10

Pit, bottomless, 311

Pius VI., chapter on, 280

—— VII., 237, 284, 302

Plague, 5;
powder, 7;
plague London, 214, 215

Plancus, Lyons, 70

Poetry, 39;
poets to be well fed, 107;
poet and prophet, 327

Poitiers edict, 118

Poland and Henri III., 116, 117, 118;
Bastarnan, 166;
partition, 186, 189

Polymarch, the Theban, 192

Ponant = west, 157

Pont = pontificate

Pope, vicar of cope, 72, _v._ _Pius_ VI., and others under name;
deposed, 282;
augur, 283

—— regicide, 121, _v._ _Peter, St._

Porphyrius, 83

Porson on Gibbon, 331

Portrait painters, 353

Portraiture, Cromwell, 178;
Appendix, 351

Portuguese, 181

Pourceau, Cape, 155

Prayer, 234

Préface à mon fils, 42

Prejudices, or auricular fancies, 44

Press, _journaux_, 229

Pretender, rebel, 221;
Charles Edward Stuart reads “Oracles,” 33

Prince, a child, 108

Privilege abolished, 272

Proferé, 287

Proper names anticipated, 28

Prophecy, astral, 53

——, afflatus, 52

——, by basin, 85

——, Bouys, 159, 183

——, _cité au glaive_, 262

——, desirable, 75

——, emotional effusion, 59

——, evil, like history, 39

——, Grêlet’s, 110

——, hempe spun, 170

——, Henri II., 26

——, honest man a prophet, vii.

——, imaginative impression, 45

——, _infelice meslée_, 278

——, inherited gift, 57

——, lies, 86

——, maddens, 26

——, mitré, 252