Note 419 — LOUIS XVIII. AND LOUIS PHILIPPE.
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Ognion is Ogmius, the Celtic Mercury or Gallic Hercules. It has figured in 1792, 1848, and again after the German war, 1872. At the two first periods they put the figure of this Hercules on their five franc pieces, with that idle exergue, Liberté, Égalité, Fraternité. This vocable, Ogmion, is equivalent to Oignon, onion, or bulbous root of the lily. If there could be any doubt at all about this, Nostradamus has taken care to remove it, calling it le grand mercure d’Hercule fleur de lys, in Century X. 79.