Garencières reads the King of Angoulesme as Francis I
interpretation
On: To raise again the great King of Angoulesme
Source quotation · Theophilus de Garencières, annotation to Century X.72 (London, 1672), p. 433
ANNOT.
He that is called here King of Angoulesme was Francis the I. as gallant a Prince as ever France had, who before he was King went by the title of Duke of Angoulesme, the rest is easie.
The True Prophecies or Prognostications of Michael Nostradamus · The True Prophecies or Prognostications of Michael Nostradamus, translated and commented by Theophilus de Garencières (London, 1672), Century X, quatrain LXXII with its French text, English translation and annotation, p. 433 (Internet Archive b30334494, Wellcome Collection copy, leaf n520). French and English printed as verse; line breaks retained. “nonante” is partly smudged in this copy (OCR “nonarite”); the reading is confirmed by the English “ninety”. Long s (ſ) rendered s; ligatures expanded; roman and italic type not distinguished; line-end hyphenation joined; spacing normalized (one space after punctuation, paragraph breaks as blank lines); running heads, catchwords, signatures, marginal notes and reference asterisks omitted; spelling, capitalization, u/v and i/j usage and punctuation otherwise as printed; omissions inside the selection marked […]. Transcribed from the Internet Archive page images and checked against the item's OCR text layer.
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Nostradamus’s French (1568) and Garencières’s 1672 translation and annotation are public domain. Historical printed text, public domain (published before 1929). The historical wording is reproduced.
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ANNOT.
He that is called here King of Angoulesme was Francis the I. as gallant a Prince as ever France had, who before he was King went by the title of Duke of Angoulesme, the rest is easie.