The murder of the Sun King's entire family
In
April of 1711, Monsignor the Grand Dauphin, son of Louis XIV and the heir
to the throne of France died, supposedly of smallpox. Louis XIV’s new heir
now became his grandson, the Duke of Bourgogne. He was married and had
two small sons, so the succession seemed secure enough. However, in January
of 1712, the Dauphine became seriously ill. It disturbed her, because an
Italian astrologer had once told her that she would die before she saw
27 years.
“The time is approaching”, she told
the her husband the Prince. “Who will you marry when I die?”
“No one” said the Prince. “In a
week, I would follow you to the grave.”
The Princess died that week, and within 6 days, her Prince had fulfilled
his vow to her. He died of the same mysterious illness on February 12,
1712. The same deadly illness struck their two children that same year,
one died, and one was snatched away from the court by his governess, in
so doing, she no doubt saved his life.
Four deaths in one years time, three of them heirs to the throne. Suspicion
of poison hung heavily over the court. It was directed towards Phillipe
the Duke of Orleans, who was Louis XIV’s reprobate nephew. At one point,
his chemist who was a man named Homberg, had gone to the Bastille to surrender
himself, but since there was no one there to receive him, he was refused
admission.
Phillipe Duke of Orleans asked for a public trial to clear his name, but
Louis XIV refused.Perhaps the Sun King refused to believe that his own
nephew could be capable of such a thing, perhaps he didn’t want to put
the Royal family under a public microscope - who knows what his reasons
were, in any case, nothing was ever proved. But the eyes of a prophet were
watching from the 16th century.
In this next quatrain, Nostradamus tries to warn the French King to beware of his nephew, but the prophecy obviously fell upon deaf ears in the 18th century.
Philippe, duc d'Orleans, Regent of France for Louis XV.
Nephew of Louis XIV
8-32
French King, beware of your nephew
He who will do so much, that your only son
Will be murdered making a vow to Venus
Accompanied at night by three and six
The Duke and Duchess of Bourgogne
1-36 Too late the monarch will repent
For not having put to death his adversary
But he will come to consent to a much greater thing
That of killing off all his blood
This
quatrain as well, tells of the death of the Bourgogne family, and Nostradamus
seems incensed at Louis XIV for not wanting to pursue his reprobate
nephew and stop him before he kills off the whole French Royal family.
King Louis XIV and his heirs
Philip II of Orleans
1-68 Oh, what a horrible
and miserable torment
Three innocent ones
whom one will come to deliver
Poison suspected,
by the betrayal they will be poorly guarded
Delivered into horror
by drunken executioners
The
three innocent ones who are poisoned here would be the Duke and Duchess
of Bourgogne and their son. Nostradamus says that even though poison will
be suspected, nothing will be done about it. The drunken executioners of
the last line is rather interesting as well - Louis XIV’s nephew the Duke
of Orleans happened to be the libertine drunkard par excellence of
his day.
The next quatrain is quite incredible in that it mentions the name of the
Duke of Orlean’s accomplice in his crimes - Cardinal Dubois. Dubois had
been the Duke’s tutor, and the two of them remained very close. When Orleans
became Regent of France some years later, his friends rose with him in
power, Dubois being one of them. He was made a Cardinal in 1720, and by
1722, was the Prime minister of France.
Cardinal Dubois Philip de Orleans
the King’s brother
9-27
When Dubois is the guardian, the wind will close around the bridge
The highly received one will strike at the Dauphin
The old craftsman united with Dubois will pass
Going far beyond the rightful confines of the Duke.
The Grand Dauphin
and his family
The
first line is difficult to interpret completely, but it does mention the
fact that Dubois was a guardian, or tutor, which is correct. The highly
received one who strikes at the Dauphin in the 2nd line is the Duke of
Orleans. He is also the old craftsman in the third line.
There could be a reference to the Cardinal’s actions on July 18, 1720,
he exiled the entire Paris Parliament to Pointoise, over the issue of the
Papal Bull Unigenitas. The French word for bridge is Pont, so perhaps there
is a word play going on here.
We find another word play in the last line in the original French, Passant
plus outre de Duc le droit confin - the words plus outre were the device
of Charles V. of Spain, probably here, they are used to denote the fact
that this Regent spent much time and energy in his life trying to make
himself eligible for the Spanish throne.
Note that in the numbering of this quatrain 9-27, we are given two digits
of the date 1712 in which happened the death of the Duke and Duchess of
Bourgogne.