Note 5 — Chapter VI

Michel de Nostradamus, most amazing of all prophets, not only accurately forecast major world events for many hundreds of years but supplemented his prophecies with the exact dates as well as the names of persons and places involved. So highly is he regarded on the continent that at the outbreak of World War II, more than five new editions of his book, The Prophetic Centuries, were rushed into print to supply the demand of Frenchmen eager to learn the outcome of the new strife.

Unhappily the prophecies of Nostradamus suffered the fate of those of Cassandra. Few believed his statements that France would be betrayed from within, Paris fall, and the greater part of the nation be occupied by German forces.—Ed.