Nostradamus (1503–1566)

Robb was an early twentieth century interpreter of Nostradamus's prophecies, with a big emphasis on Nostradamus's supposed prophecies of French history. No biggie there, as Nostradamus was a French prophet, wouldn't most of his prophecies be geared at the French? Robb here does his admirable and scholarly best to try and prove that the quatrains he choose do that. But, of course, it is all a matter of post-diction, selective cherry-picking, and outré interpretations of words and phrases and anagrams sometimes but not others. Oddly, Robb doesn't select the young lion, old lion joust quatrain to explify. And Robb is okay with admitting Nostradamus is wrong, like p. 37: "It seems then that Nostradamus got the color of his hair wrong." And, prophecy C87, Q71 on astrologers in 1607? Robb repeats the fiction that there was a Council at Malines in 1607 that condemned astrology. Even Hogue is honest enough to admit there was no such council or ruling or anything in 1607 that could conceivable be construed to fulfill this prophecy. If Nostradamus (and his commentators) can be so wrong, how can he ever be right? A broken clock is right...… (meer)