{"collection":"Nostradamus","full_text_available":false,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_nos_oon_oon09_htm/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/sacred_texts_v1_nos_oon_oon09_htm","id":"sacred_texts_v1_nos_oon_oon09_htm","license":"unknown_pending_legal_review","rights_basis":"sacred_texts_v1_preview_gate_primary_text_only; acquisition-method/ToS and compilation-copyright questions still open, not resolved by this gate","source":"sacred_texts_v1","source_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/nos/oon/oon09.htm","summary":"*Oracles of Nostradamus* by Charles A. Ward (1891) is a work of interpretive commentary and advocacy in the tradition of Nostradamus scholarship, presenting selected quatrains from the 16th-century French prophet alongside their supposed historical fulfillments. Ward's central argument is that Nostradamus was a genuine and extraordinary prophet \u2014 not a fraud \u2014 whose cryptic verse quatrains accurately foretold specific events in French history, most notably the death of Henri II in a jousting accident (1559), the regency of Catherine de Medici, and the arrest of the Count of Montgomery. The book works chronologically through French history from 1559 to 1774, pairing each event with a quatrain from the *Centuries* and drawing on earlier French commentators, particularly Le Pelletier, to demonstrate the correspondences. Ward's distinctive contribution is framing this as a work aimed at English readers specifically, claiming to settle definitively \u2014 \"for all future time\" \u2014 the question of Nostradamus's legitimacy. A notable feature is Ward's inclusion of corroborating sources, such as a passage from *La Princesse de Cl\u00e8ves* and a reference to Bacon's *Essay on Prophecies*, to show that contemporaries of Henri II were themselves warned of the king's fatal duel by astrologers. The work is less a rigorous historical analysis than an enthusiastic, literarily grounded brief for the defense of prophetic credibility.","tags":[],"text":null,"title":"Oracles of Nostradamus: Historical Fragments","tradition":"Nostradamus","translated_text":null,"word_count":10299}