The following is an email exchange I had recently. I encourage you to make up your own mind as to the significance of this. - J.B. Hare

Note: After I posted this essay (which got a tremendous number of hits and continues to do so) I received a torrent of email which I was unable to respond to individually.

Among these responses, several readers pointed out that the place name translated 'tower of Aiguesmortes' (in the French version Tour d'Aignes), is actually the name of a former seaport in the south of France from which ships left for the Crusades. Incidentally, the seashore has now retreated several kilometers at this point so it is no longer a seaport.

So maybe the reference to a tower is just accidental. I stand by my original gut feeling about this quatrain, nonetheless.

The point of my essay is: why make up bogus Nostradamus when the real text is so much more interesting?

The following is an email exchange I had recently. I encourage you to make up your own mind as to the significance of this. - J.B. Hare

Note: After I posted this essay (which got a tremendous number of hits and continues to do so) I received a torrent of email which I was unable to respond to individually.

Among these responses, several readers pointed out that the place name translated 'tower of Aiguesmortes' (in the French version Tour d'Aignes), is actually the name of a former seaport in the south of France from which ships left for the Crusades. Incidentally, the seashore has now retreated several kilometers at this point so it is no longer a seaport.

So maybe the reference to a tower is just accidental. I stand by my original gut feeling about this quatrain, nonetheless.

The point of my essay is: why make up bogus Nostradamus when the real text is so much more interesting?

The following is an email exchange I had recently. I encourage you to make up your own mind as to the significance of this. - J.B. Hare

Note: After I posted this essay (which got a tremendous number of hits and continues to do so) I received a torrent of email which I was unable to respond to individually.

Among these responses, several readers pointed out that the place name translated 'tower of Aiguesmortes' (in the French version Tour d'Aignes), is actually the name of a former seaport in the south of France from which ships left for the Crusades. Incidentally, the seashore has now retreated several kilometers at this point so it is no longer a seaport.

So maybe the reference to a tower is just accidental. I stand by my original gut feeling about this quatrain, nonetheless.

The point of my essay is: why make up bogus Nostradamus when the real text is so much more interesting?