00:00Join me now in 1607, 1610. We open our eyes to a dark sky, pierced by a wandering light, an omen, a
00:10incandescent thread that runs through the history of Europe.
00:13In the year 1607, the heavens announced what Earth did not yet understand: the passage of Halley's Comet, the
00:19star with manes, as Nostradamus would evoke it centuries before.
00:23A celestial sign that, in the mindset of the time, is not a simple astronomical phenomenon, but a warning, a coded message.
00:32In his quatrain 215, the physician and astrologer writes, a little earlier, about the assassinated monarch, Castor and Pollux, in a ship, star
00:41with manes.
00:42The image is powerful. Castor and Pollux, the celestial twins of the Gemini constellation, shine like guides in the middle
00:49from the storm.
00:50The star with hair crosses the sky, illuminating a Europe torn apart by political conflicts, imperial ambitions, and religious tensions.
00:59Let's go back a few years. In 1598, Philip II died. With him, an era of unbridled expansion of the Spanish Empire came to an end.
01:09Their military campaigns, the defense of Catholicism, and the maintenance of territories scattered around the world have emptied the coffers.
01:17of the kingdom.
01:17Spain, seemingly powerful, is teetering on the brink of financial ruin. Nostradamus had already warned of this in his almanac for 1555.
01:27The treasury of the monarch of Spain will be so empty and depleted that he will be forced to do as Nero did and surrender to
01:34the plunder.
01:35The word Errariam, the public treasury, appears as a symbol of exhaustion.
01:40An empire sustained on debt, where the gold of America is no longer enough.
01:44Meanwhile, in Italy, tensions are rising.
01:48Cities like Pisa, Asti, Ferrara, and Turin become pieces on a geopolitical chessboard.
01:54In 1598, Ferrara passed into the hands of the papacy, under Clement VIII, unleashing diplomatic conflicts.
02:02A year later, the plague swept through these lands, further weakening already exhausted populations.
02:08Nostradamus sums it up with unsettling precision.
02:11The public treasury emptied by land and sea, Pisa, Asti, Ferrara, Turin, forbidden land.
02:18But not only war and plague are lurking, but also famine.
02:22In his predictions of 1557, he describes almost lifeless cities.
02:27Ships laden with provisions cross the sea, protected by favorable winds and symbolically,
02:32by the light of Castor and Pollux, under the gaze of the god Zeus.
02:37It is a world on the verge of collapse, sustained by celestial signs.
02:41And then, we arrive at the year 1610, in Paris.
02:45One seemingly ordinary afternoon, King Henry IV travels through a narrow street in his carriage.
02:52The wheels stop.
02:54Two carts are blocking the way.
02:56Time stands still.
02:57François Raveila emerges from the crowd.
03:00Two stab wounds.
03:01Destiny comes to pass.
03:02Nostradamus had described it in quatrain 5-17.
03:06At night, as the king passes near a narrow street, the cypress tree and the main one lie in wait.
03:11The cypress, a tree of mourning, stands as a symbol of death.
03:15The alleyway is the perfect setting.
03:18The king falls, but the verse suggests something more, a conspiracy.
03:22A broader plot.
03:24Invisible hands that escape far from the Rhone.
03:28Ravelac is the executor, but not necessarily the only one.
03:32After the death of the monarch, the young Louis XIII ascends to the throne.
03:36Too young to govern.
03:38Power rests with his mother, Maria de Medici, and his trusted man, Consino Consini.
03:44Nearby, the Duke of Sully observes the decline of France's stability, which enters a new stage.
03:50where shadows still linger.
03:53Thus, between 1607 and 1610, heaven and earth seemed to speak the same language.
03:59Comets, assassinated kings, indebted empires, and cities ravaged by disease.
04:06Nostradamus does not offer certainties.
04:08But, if patterns, these texts are part of the second century of the book
04:14Nostradamus' Prophetic Chronology.
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