Nostradamus C9 Q69: The great 21stC flood covers seventy percent of France.
Copyright: Allan Webber, December 2015, 2022

Using this verse in my paper titled Floods I identify the dimension of Nostradamus' floods and show that it represents something greater than has occurred in the past. I do this by showing the unity in the statements made in both his Prefaces and his Prophecies.

The text of Centuries 9 Quatrain 69 ties it to the flood quotes in the 1555 Preface that provide guidance for his major themes. The relevant sections of the Preface commentary are shown alongside. These quotes and the verses linked to them are the basis underpinning the trail I compiled for reconstructing Nostradamus' work.

The connections between verses and quotes together with modern topics uniting the anagrams in these verses enables the trail for floods to be followed through a set of verses in a way that removes the obscurities faced by earlier analysts.  The main verses involved in this flood group are listed in pairs in the table alongside. I list them in pairs because there is a natural fit of ideas using that style but they also form a cohesive whole with cross-threads between the text and anagrams of all verses in the group of ten. 

This verse pairs with C8 Q16 because their text involves vast floods of the nature mentioned in the quotes. In line 4 of C9 Q69 we have "Lobster on land" implying a flood reaching up into the mountains.  That line also states "not a third thereof will remain" which is the counterpart to the entry in the quote saying "there shall not be scarcely and land". But it is also a near perfect match to the statement in C8 Q16 which says there will be such a great sudden flood that one won't have place nor land to fall upon the waters mount to the Olympic Fesulan".

The statement in the text of the last line stating not a third thereof will remain is exclusively a flood claim made by Nostradamus. Modern science doesn't foresee a rapid rise in sea levels that would cover seventy per cent of the currently available land surface even under the influence of climate change. Such a coverage would require a change in the sea level of over 160 meters. Yet this not the only verse or location where that level is implicit in Nostradamus' text as I will show in a later trail based on this current verse.

The rarest anagrams found in the current verse provide a sinister basis for themes already begun in earlier parts of the trail. They involve the relationship between genetic technology and aspirations of leaders. Their desire to pass on their control of the masses  leads a group of ideologues to use ancient DNA to re-create their long-dead founding hero.

C9 Q69

On the mountain of Saint-Bel and L'Arbresle
The proud one of Grenoble will be hidden:
Beyond Lyons and Vienne on them a very great hail,
Lobster on the land not a third thereof will remain.

Sur le mont de Bailly et la Breſle
Seront caichez de Grenoble les fiers
Oultre Lyon Vien eulx ſi grande greſle
Langoult en terre n'en reſtera vn tiers.

Anagram Sequences in French Text. ( ~ means full line used)

1. <omen ruleS deBt Bilaterally><entomBed ruleS ail><yet relaBels ill aBodement><ruleleSS aBodement>.<RebelS rules lately Bailed><leSSer taBle><StaBler omen ruleS yieldable> liaBle Baited
2. <norSe fires catechized><lifes noble deGreeZ><anceStors fires><fireless accretionS> <lifes creation / reaction Seers Borne><Seers narcotic files><occitan riSes he flees / feels noble Greed>
3. <elSe regarding><Vienne [Austria] trolley greed SoLe grains lux><six danger>
4. <veteranS reenter lent reguLations><eaSterner intervals><native Langours reenterS><entraiLs traverSe><aLong intertranSverse re-enter><renneS [NW France]avert> travertineS [ hot rock mineral] triangLes

FREQUENCIES OF RAREST OCCURRENCE in Centuries

1. bilaterally, entombed, lately, stable, yieldable, catechized, degreez, fireless, trolley, travertines, intertransverse
2. ruleless, abodement, bailed, accretions, regarding, intervals
3. langours
4. relabels, narcotic, traverse
5. baited, Occitan, regulations, triangles
6. ancestors, veterans
7. -
8. native
9. liable, Easterner
10. reaction/ creation
11. avert
12. rebels
13. lifes / files, Rennes
14. borne, Vienne, entrails
15. -
16. reenters
17. -
18. noble
19. table
20. flees / fells

Key Ideas:

bilaterally, stable, travertines, entombed, Occitan, ill abodement, rebels, lately, catechized, degrees, ruleless , veterans, ancestors fires, fireless accretion, relabels, narcotic, regulations, Easterner, baited, natives, borne, lifes, creation, enters, Rennes, noble, entrails.