Place de la Madeleine • Rue Royale • Place Vendôme • Obelisco da Place de la Concorde
Mapa do bairro de la Madeleine
Estátua de Shiva Natardja, Senhor da Dança, Mmusée Guimet, Foto Jean-Pierre Dalbéra CCBY Este é um bairro elegante e relativamente novo, como outros da zona oeste da cidade. Hoje é bastante central, mas na Idade Média sequer ficava no perímetro urbano parisiense; pertencia à cidadezinha de Ville l’Éveque. A região só começou a ser valorizada no final do século XVII, quando Luís XIV mandou construir a Place Vendôme. Um século mais tarde, outra grande praça, a Luís XV (atual Place de la Concorde), foi construída ali perto, à beira do Sena, ao lado dos Jardins des Tuileries.
Desde o Segundo Império, a arquitetura do bairro foi padronizada com os mesmos prédios clássicos haussmannianos. A Place de la Madeleine e a rue Royale datam dessa época. No final do século XIX, a região assumiu uma vocação comercial que perdura até hoje; nela concentram-se grandes grifes, hotéis e restaurantes chiques e sofisticadas lojas dos mais variados produtos. Place de la Madeleine e Rue Royale.
A praça grande e elegante, em cujo centro está a igreja de la Madeleine, tem um comércio fino e variado. Ela é um dos maiores paraísos gastronômicos do planeta: as lojas Fauchon e Hédiard, os restaurantes Lucas Carton e Caviar Kaspia, o chocolatier Marquise de Sevigné e muitos outros estabelecimentos de dar água na boca ficam lá.
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Rue Royale
Entre a Place de la Madeleine e a Place de Concorde, numa localização privilegiadíssima, fica a Rue Royale, uma das mais chiques de Paris, onde o comércio é tão sofisticado quanto na Madeleine, com a vantagem de que ela é ainda mais bonita e agradável para passear. É lá que ficam o lendário restaurante Maxim’s e a antiquíssima confeitaria Ladurée. Mesmo que você esteja de regime e não queira ou não possa comprar nenhum artigo de luxo, vai adorar ir da Madeleine à Concorde a pé e conhecer um lado muito elegante de Paris.
Madeleine
(igreja) A igreja de Ste-Marie de la Madeleine, ou simplesmente Madeleine, como todo mundo a chama, é uma das mais famosas igrejas parisienses. Com seu frontão triangular e 52 colunas coríntias de 20 metros de altura, ela mais parece um imenso templo da Grécia clássica do que uma igreja católica. Uma curiosidade: repare que ela não tem nenhuma cruz no alto. Sua construção começou em 1763, durante o reinado de Luís XV, mas a planta original foi substituída pouco depois por outra, quando um novo arquiteto resolveu derrubar tudo e recomeçar os trabalhos, desta vez com um projeto neoclássico, semelhante ao do Panthéon. Com a Revolução, os trabalhos foram mais uma vez suspensos até 1806, quando Napoleão os retomou visando a transformar o edifício em um Templo da Glória em homenagem a seu exército. Em 1837, por pouco a Madeleine não virou uma estação ferroviária, até que em 1842, passou finalmente a ser uma igreja. Ao visitá-la, aproveite para desfrutar a vista da escadaria do lado sul: você verá a rue Royale, a Place de la Concorde, o Sena e, mais longe, do outro lado do rio, a Assembleia Nacional.
Place Vendôme
Concebida em 1685, durante o reinado de Luís XIV, pelo arquiteto Jules Hardouin-Mansart, essa praça é um dos endereços mais chiques do mundo. Nela ficam lojas das mais caras e elegantes grifes, além do lendário Hotel Ritz, onde se hospedam a nobreza europeia, artistas famosos, ministros de Estado, milionários e outras personalidades do mundo todo. A princesa Diana e seu namorado estavam hospedados ali quando saíram de carro na madrugada, numa corrida em alta velocidade que os levou ao acidente fatal. No local da praça, havia antigamente a residência do Duque de Vendôme.
Os trabalhos de construção começaram com as fachadas e as arcadas padronizadas, mas foram interrompidos por falta de dinheiro. Inicialmente, apenas a estátua equestre de Luís XIV pôde ser inaugurada. Somente mais tarde, durante a regência do Duque de Orléans, graças a uma hábil manobra especulativa do banqueiro escocês John Law, as obras puderam ser terminadas. A enorme coluna central, de mais de 43 metros de altura, foi construída durante o reinado de Napoleão para comemorar suas vitórias militares. Durante o século XIX, a cada mudança política, uma estátua diferente era colocada no alto dessa coluna. Primeiro, foi Napoleão vestido de imperador romano; em 1814, foi a vez de Henrique IV; no reinado de Luís XVIII, uma gigantesca flor-de-lis e, mais tarde, sob Luís Felipe, mais uma vez Napoleão, mas de sobrecasaca. A estátua que existe hoje é uma réplica da primeira.
Place de la Concorde – A mais bela praça de Paris? Para muitos, sim. Leia a página sobre la Place de la Concorde.
Musée de l’Orangerie
Fundado em 1927, o museu recebeu em 1965 a coleção Walter-Guillaume. Além de acolher exposições temporárias, tem um acervo permanente de pinturas do período de 1880 a 1930 de artistas como Renoir, Cézanne, Modigliani, Picasso e Matisse. Mas pode esquecer tudo isso: todo mundo vai lá para apreciar as embasbacantes Nymphéas, de Claude Monet, pintadas no jardim de sua casa em Giverny, que ocupam salas inteiras. Imperdível. Musée de l’Orangerie
Jardins des Tuileries
Os Jardins de Tuileries, na Rive Droite, entre o Louvre e a Avenue des Champs-Elysés, bem cuidado e repleto de estátuas é um lugar apreciado por parisienses e turistas, quando querem dar uma pausa em suas andanças. Nossa sugestão, se você for visitar o Louvre, dar uma espiada no Jardin. Saiba mais sobre o Jardin des Tuileries
Musée du Jeu de Paume
Jardins des Tuileries O Museu do Jeu de Paume, nos Jardins des Tuileries, do lado oposto ao Musée de l’Orangerie, fica em um edifício construído no reinado de Napoleão III. Durante muito tempo, o Jeu de Paume foi o mais importante museu parisiense de arte impressionista, até a transferência de seu acervo para o Musée d’Orsay, em 1986. Hoje em dia, lá são realizadas apenas exposições temporárias. Confira a programação. Musée du Jeu de Paume
Rue St-Honoré
A St-Honoré, que começa no bairro de Les Halles com um comércio menos pretensioso, vai se tornando mais luxuosa à medida que se aproxima do Palais Royal e atravessa a av. de l’Opéra. No tringulo formado pelas praças da Madeleine, da Concorde e Vendôme fica a parte mais elegante da rua. Juntamente com a praça Vendôme e a rua Royale, ela reúne algumas das principais lojas de grifes famosas, joalherias e grandes nomes da alta costura.
Concorde's last commercial flight: How Jeremy Clarkson, David Frost and Jodie Kidd flew on its final journey from New York to London on this day 20 years ago - three years after Air France crash that killed all 109 people on board
Total of three Concorde planes touched down at Heathrow on October 24, 2003
One from New York was the final commercial fight and had celebrities on board
Two other Concorde planes had already landed just minutes earlier. One carried competition winners from Edinburgh, and the other had taken invited guests around the Bay of Biscay.
There to greet them were thousands of Britons with waving Union Jacks, symbolising the pride of a nation that had been enraptured by the technological feat of supersonic travel.
Not on the agenda that day was the devastating Concorde crash in July 2000 that killed all 109 people on board.
Operators British Airways and Air France had blamed the end of Concorde on a downturn in demand and the fact it was hugely expensive.
The last Concorde flight took place in October 2003. Pictured are the flight crew from the last flight leaning out of the windows of the cockpit
On board for the journey from New York to London Heathrow were 100 lucky celebrities, including Jeremy Clarkson (above), Jodie Kidd (right) and the famed TV interviewer David Frost
It was the end of an era that had promised so much, not least London to New York in less than three hours. Twenty years ago today, Concorde made its final commercial flight. Above: The plane takes off from New York
Largely forgotten though was the tragedy three years earlier that helped seal the project's fate: the devastating Concorde crash during take-off from Paris in July 2000 that killed all 109 people on board
2003: Concorde airplanes are celebrated during last passenger flight
Concorde made its maiden flight on March 2, 1969, from Toulouse Airport. It was flown for 27 minutes by test pilot Andrew Turcat.
Concorde: Key stats
Average cruise speed: 1,320mph (Mach 2.02).
Typical take-off speed: 250mph (220kt).
Max take-off weight: 185,070kg (408,000lb).
Cabin width: 2.63m (8ft 8in).
Height: 11.30m (37ft 1in).
Wing span: 25.56m (83ft 10in).
Length: 62.10m (203ft 9in).
A little more than a month afterwards, a prototype piloted by test pilot Brian Trubshaw took off from the British Aircraft Corporation’s (BAC) site in Filton near Bristol.
The jet made a short trip to RAF Fairford in Gloucestershire, bringing commercial travel one step closer.
Prior to the maiden flight, the coalition of two governments and two aircraft makers - British Aircraft Corporation (now BAE Systems) and Sud-Aviation, a precursor to Airbus - had encountered a series of hurdles and differences.
Even the aircraft's name, which means 'agreement' in both languages, was a sticking point: English-style 'Concord' or 'Concorde' in French?
Britain's technology minister Tony Benn settled the dispute in 1967, keeping the 'e' for 'excellence', 'England', 'Europe' and 'Entente cordiale', as he said.
Concorde had four Rolls-Royce Olympus engines that burned 6,771 gallons (25,629 litres) of fuel every hour.
They enabled it to reach a cruising velocity of 1,350mph, twice the speed of sound.
The plane's most distinctive feature - its pointed nose - drooped downwards during take-off to allow for better pilot visibility.
Actress Dame Joan Collins boarding the last flight of Concorde from JFK to Heathrow
The last British Airways Concorde lands at London's Heathrow Airport Friday October 24, 2003, on the day that the world's first supersonic airliner retired from commercial service
'On the edge of space!': Last Concorde flight takes off
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Two other Concorde planes had already landed just minutes earlier. One carried competition winners from Edinburgh, and the other had taken invited guests around the Bay of Biscay. Above: The three planes on the runway at Heathrow
Plane-spotters line up to buy souvenirs beside the runway on the day Concorde was being retired
e last ever British Airways commercial Concorde flight touches down at Heathrow airport
The last ever British Airways commercial Concorde flight touches down at Heathrow airport
Concorde was retired from service in October 2003, with British Airways and Air France blaming a downturn in passenger numbers and rising maintenance costs
Its triangular 'delta' wings were also instantly recognisable and offered stability and efficiency.
Innovations born with Concorde advanced aeronautics, including the weight-saving aluminium for the body and the first ever use of electronic controls to replace manual ones.
According to BAE Systems, the estimated final overall cost of developing the Concorde was around $1.6 billion.
Its inaugural scheduled passenger flights were on January 21, 1976: the Paris-Rio route operated by Air France and London-Bahrain by British Airways.
But tickets did not come cheap. A return London-New York ticket in 2003 cost around £8,300 pounds ($11,960).
That meant that it was largely the preserve of the very wealthy, or the very famous.
Regular passengers included Joan Collins, Sir Paul McCartney, Diana, Princess of Wales and David Frost.
On the 2003 flight, passengers famously claimed Jeremy Clarkson launched his glass of champagne over Piers Morgan's lap.
Jock Lowe, who was the longest serving Concorde pilot, said flying the aircraft was 'like driving a sports car compared with a normal car'.
Pictured are the crew of the first ever Concorde flight. They were Michel Retif, flight engineer, Andre Turcat, captain, mechanical engineer Henri Perrier, and Jacques Guignard, co-pilot
It was until several months later on October 1, 1969 that Concorde first went supersonic during a test flight in Toulouse
The first ever Concorde flight takes off from Toulouse Airport exactly 50 years ago today on March 2, 1969
Concorde welcomed the Queen on several ocassions. She is pictured left in 1977 reading newspapers during her flight home from Bridgetown, Barbados after her Silver Jubilee tour of Canada and the West Indies. Pictured right is Her Late Majesty and Princess Anne touring a Concorde cockpit
In 1996 to mark the 50th anniversary of London's Heathrow Airport a British Airways Concorde took part in a fly past with the RAF's Red Arrows
Barbara Harmer, from Bognor Regis, flew into the record books when she became the first woman to operate a Concorde in 1993
John Tye said flying Concorde was 'a real privilege'. Mr Tye, pictured, now a training captain on the Boeing 777, said Concorde was a 'masterpiece of engineering' and 'one of the world's most beautiful creations'
The final Concorde, Flight 216, takes off from London's Heathrow Airport, en route to its birthplace Filton in western England, November 26, 2003
On July 25, 2000, Concorde's tragic defining moment came, when New York-bound Air France Flight 4590 crashed shortly after take off from Paris
Along with everyone on the plane, four people died on the ground. Most of the passengers were German tourists
For her 80th birthday, the Queen Mother was treated to a flight on a British Airways Concorde in 1980
The Duchess of York, who became the first female Royal to gain a private pilot's licence, went on the flight deck of a Concorde supersonic jet during a visit to Heathrow Airport in 1987
The Daily Mail produced a souvenir edition that told readers where they could see one of the three last Concorde planes before they touched down at Heathrow
The Daily Mail's tribute to the incredible plane, which was a British-French project
The last of the Concordes and where to find them
CONCORDE NUMBER
REG
FIRST FLEW
LAST FLEW
WHERE IT IS LOCATED NOW
001
F-WTSS
2nd March 1969
19th October 1973
Museum of Air and Space, Le Bourget, France
002
G-BSST
9th April 1969
4th March 1976
Fleet Air Arm Museum, Yeovilton, England
101
G-AXDN
17th December 1971
20th August 1977
Imperial War Museum, Duxford, England
102
F-WTSA
10th January 1973
20th May 1976
Musée Delta, Orly Airport, Paris, France
201
F-WTSB
6th December 1973
19th April 1985
Airbus Factory, Toulouse, France
202
G-BBDG
13th December 1974
24th December 1981
Brooklands Museum, Weybridge
204
G-BOAC
27th February 1975
31st October 2003
Manchester Airport, England
205
F-BVFA
27th October 1976
12th June 2003
Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum, Chantilly, Virginia
206
G-BOAA
5th November 1975
12th August 2000
Museum of Flight, East Lothian, Scotland
207
F-BVFB
6th March 1976
24th June 2003
Sinsheim Auto & Technik Museum, Germany
208
G-BOAB
18th May 1976
15th August 2000
Heathrow Airport, London
209
F-BVFC
9th July 1976
27th June 2003
At the Airbus Factory, Toulouse, France
210
G-BOAD
25th August 1976
10th November 2003
Intrepid Sea-Air-Space Museum, New York
212
G-BOAE
17th March 1977
17th November 2003
Grantley Adams International Airport, Barbados
213
F-BTSD
26th June 1978
14th June 2003
The Museum of Air and Space, Le Bourget, France
214
G-BOAG
21st April 1978
5th November 2003
Museum of Flight, Seattle
215
F-BVFF
26th December 1978
11th June 2000
Charles de Gaulle Airport, Paris
216
G-BOAF
20th April 1979
26th November 2003
Aerospace Bristol, England
He continued: 'The most exhilarating part was the power you had on take-off. The acceleration was really quite special.'
A Concorde timeline
November 1956: A UK committee featuring representatives from aircraft and engine manufacturers as well as government officials is established to analyse the feasibility of a supersonic airliner.
November 1962: A draft treaty is signed by the UK and France to commit to jointly building a supersonic airliner.
March 1969: A Concorde prototype flies for the first time, from Toulouse in the south of France.
January 1976: British Airways and Air France launch commercial Concorde flights.
January 1980: British Airways takes delivery of its seventh and final Concorde.
July 1985: Singer Phil Collins performs at Live Aid concerts in the UK and US on the same day by flying on Concorde.
February 1996: The fastest transatlantic crossing by an airliner is recorded by Concorde on a New York to London flight which took just two hours, 52 minutes and 59 seconds.
July 2000: An Air France Concorde en route from Paris to New York crashes shortly after take-off due to an engine fire, killing all 109 people on board as well as four people on the ground. The Concorde fleets of British Airways and Air France are grounded pending an inquiry.
November 2001: Transatlantic Concorde flights resume from London and Paris following a safety upgrade.
April 2003: It is announced that Concorde will be taken out of service due to a sharp dip in passenger numbers amid global economic problems and the aftermath of September 11.
October 2003: Concorde touches down for the final time after a special flight from London Heathrow to Airbus UK's Filton airfield in Bristol.
Former British Airways captain John Tye previously described being 'glued to the TV' when the maiden flight happened in 1969.
He went on to fly the 100-seater aircraft between 1998 and 2000.
The pilot explained how it required 'absolute precision' and would push through the sound barrier while causing 'nothing more than a ripple on 100 glasses of champagne'.
He added that said Concorde was a 'masterpiece of engineering' and 'one of the world's most beautiful creations'.
On July 25, 2000, Concorde's tragic defining moment came, when New York-bound Air France Flight 4590 crashed shortly after take off from Paris.
Along with everyone on the plane, four people died on the ground. Most of the passengers were Greman tourists.
After the crash, the Concorde fleets of British Airways and Concorde were grounded and an inquiry took place.
In November 2001, flights did resume following a safety upgrade, but the superfast plane was ultimately doomed.
In April 2003 it is announced that Concorde would be taken out of service due to a sharp dip in passenger numbers amid global economic problems and the aftermath of September 11.
The final ever non-commercial Concorde flight took off from Heathrow on November 26, 2003.
It made the short journey to Filton, Bristol, where the plane first took to the skies.
During the flight, it swooped low over Bristol's Clifton Suspension Bridge in what marked one final flourish of the great plane.
Once at Filton, it was installed in an exhibition at what is now called Aerospace Bristol.
In 2016, its wheels turned for the final time when the plane was moved so it could be installed in a new purpose-built hangar.
The 17 Concorde jets that survive are now dotted around the world, either on display in museums or in storage.
Besides the one in Bristol, British Airways has a Concorde at its engineering base at Heathrow Airport.
The area is not open for visitors, but some passengers are able to see it when they land at the west London hub.
There is also a fleet of three British development Concordes, which are at Fleet Air Arm Museum in Somerset, Imperial War Museum Duxford in Cambridgeshire and Brooklands Museum in Surrey.
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This square used to be named Place Louis XV after the king who built it, including the two magnificent buildings looking on the square, which were royal property. In the middle of the square used to stand a statue of the same king, which was of course destroyed during the French Revolution. The obelisk, a gift from Egypt, came later in 1836.
With 19 acres, this is the largest square in Paris, therefore it was used for celebrations gathering large crowds: a notable one was a banquet for the marriage of the future Louis XVI with Marie-Antoinette. During that event, fireworks ignited a fire which caused panic among the thousands of people attending and over one hundred of them died crushed by the mass movement.
During the reign of terror, one of the guillotines was placed there for executions of high profile personalities: including the king and queen, and many members of the revolutionary government like Danton and Robespierre. By the foot of the obelisk, a plaque serves as a reminder of the events.
Egyptian hieroglyphs 'proof' of time travel after people spot 'helicopter and plane'
A video posted on YouTube by seems to depict a modern-day fixed-wing aircraft on the sacred hieroglyphs but while some experts are open minded, others are not convinced by the time travelling claims
The markings are a proof of time travel, some Egyptian observers say (
Experts say a helicopter and plane was found in Egyptian hieroglyphs(
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Chairman of Manchester's Association of Paranormal Investigation & Training Stephen Meera held a UFO conference in London and appeared to back up the claims, reports The Sun.
Introducing the image of the hieroglyphs, he explained: "Look it has what looks like the rotor blade and here is what looks like a rudder.
"And what about this? Is that a rudder and this the wing?
"I am not saying that this is a helicopter, but it is worth considering. Why would they put these images in and had they seen them?"
What do you think of the find? Tell us in the comments below
The carving appear to show aircrafts but not everyone is convinced(
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But sceptics are not exactly sold.
They say none of the Egyptian writings ever mentions aircrafts or time-travelling creatures and says it's purely a mistake.
The Rain is Cool blog says it's just a simple error made thousands of years ago.
The editor laughed off the claims, writing: "I can't solve all of the (cue reverb) MYSTERIES OF THE UNIVERSE, but I have solved one.
"There are a set of hieroglyphs in Seti I's temple in Abydos, Egypt that certain people have decided show the ancient Egyptians had, or knew about, helicopters, tanks, submarines and jets.
"Yes, I can see how it looks like that, but the truth is, of course, mundane. It took me a day to figure out what was going on. (Yay Google images, Wikipedia and an amateur interest in hieroglyphs!)"
LINE 1: "The great army which will pass the mountains"
LINE 2: "Saturn in the Arc turning from/of the fish Mars"
Region surrounded by red = 'Field of Mars'
LINE 3:"Poison hidden under the heads of salmon"
LINE 4: "Their head hung with thread of 'polemars'
LINE 1:"The great star will burn for seven days"
LINE 2: "The cloud will make double sun appear"
LINE 3: "The large mastiff will howl all night"
"The mastiff that will howl all night refers to a secret branch of the priesthood in the Catholic Church that no one knows about except a few high priest members. This secret branch of the priesthood is like a private army, and the commander-in-chief is the pope. Their job is to fight for the church if the need should arise, similar to the way the Jesuits used to be the soldiers of Christ."
LINE 4: "When the great pontiff changes his abode"
LINE 1: "The great star will burn for seven days" LINE 2: "The cloud will make double sun appear" LINE 3: "The large mastiff will howl all night"
The "double sun" of Line 2 also correlates with Sirius A and Sirius B orbiting around each other. And the "mastiff" of course relates to Sirius the 'Dog Star'! I mean, this quatrain is screaming "Sirius!".
And II-48... Line 2 is enough to suggests the whole 'Sirius complex' - 'Saturn', 'Arc', and 'Mars'. But the most striking thing about quatrain II-48 is its correlation with Paris - which is of course part of the Sirius complex - and more specifically with the 'Elysian Fields' region of Paris where the Arc de Triomphe stands. (The connection is so striking that I feel this one should be called 'the Paris quatrain'.) This issue was discussed in Chapter 7 of 'The Elysian Fields' but let me go through it here again with some new additional interpretations:
The "great army" is precisely the name of one of the 12 streets that extend from the famous circular road that surrounds the Arc de Triomphe ("Place Charles de Gaulle"), which is called in French, "Grande Armee". 'Grand Armee' is not only one of the 12 streets but it's the direct extension of the main street, 'Champs Elysees' (Elysian Fields). The "mountains" is likely an allusion to the Arc de Triomphe which stands in between 'Champs Elysees' and 'Grande Armee' Here are pictures showing the relevant region of Paris and the relationship of the Grande Armee avenue, Arc de Triomphe, and the Elysian Fields.
· Red region = Arc de Triomphe & Place Charles de Gaulle · Purple street = Grande Armee avenue · Blue street = Elysian Fields
The "Arc" is obviously a reference to the' Arc de Triomphe'. And the notion is strengthened by the word right after "Arc", "turning" - which implies circular movement/shape and nicely corresponds to the famous circular road going around the Arc de Triomphe (see the picture at right). The phrase "Saturn in the Arc" corroborates the Saturn-ark connection we've made.
The latter half, "turning/corner of the fish Mars" can be interpreted in a quite different and symbolic way, and it is necessary to use a map of the relevant region of Paris again:
As you can see, the Elysian Fields, the Arc de Triomphe etc. are placed right beside the Seine River. Interestingly, on the other side of the river, there is a garden called the "Field of Mars" ('Champ de Mars') in which stands Paris' landmark, the Eiffel Tower. This is reinforcing the relevance of Mars. Now, the word 'Seine' (name the river) means "fishing net". That metaphorically makes (the Field of) Mars the "fish" trapped in the net. This would also make the same region where the river is turning 90 degrees the "corner of the 'fish-Mars'" to fit Line 2.
The "fish" also correlates with Sirius because the Dogon tradition tells us that the "Nommos" that supposedly came from the Sirius system were fish-like (and yes, we're now getting into the issue of extraterrestrial intelligence). So the phrase 'fish Mars' again associates Sirius with Mars.
The very first word, "poison", creates an interesting connection with Line 2 because the French word for "fish" is "poisson" which is nearly identical, both in spelling and pronunciation, to the word 'poison' which is also a French word for poison. Thus, combined with the last word of the line "salmon", the notion of 'fish' seems to be emphasized. Interestingly, the original French word used for 'poison' was actually 'Venins' which resembles Venus. It seems relevant, therefore, that Venus goes retrograde (i.e. reversing its apparent movement in the sky) during the key period of August 1999, corresponding to "salmon" (which is known to swim against the current) of the same line and also to the previous line's expression, "turning of the fish".This last line of the quatrain strongly reinforces the concepts put forward by the interpretation of the previous lines. The last word of the line "polemars" is not a real word, most likely it's a made-up word / anagram. Decoding is not that difficult - first we'll divide it into two words, 'pole' and 'Mars'. Continued from previous interpretations, it is not hard to see that the "pole" would refer to the 'Eiffel Tower' that stands in the' Field of Mars'.
To decipher the whole line, we need to take a closer look at the map of the region of the 'Field of Mars':
Notice that the park, the Field of Mars ("Champ de Mars"), seemingly crossesover the river. The Seine River can be viewed as dividing the park and there is a bridge connecting the two parts. Since the park area can be viewed metaphorically as "fish" based on previous interpretations, notice how the park left of the river can be viewed as the "head" of the fish barely 'hanging on' to the body, the Field of Mars, by the bridge or the "thread" from "polemars" / the Field of Mars. Thus it would fit Line 4.
Also, since the French word "fil", which I translated here as "thread", could also mean 'stream', the line could also interpreted like this: "Their head hung by the stream of the Field of Mars". This would still be metaphorically describing how the Seine River is dividing the Field of Mars and its "head".
And that's basically how Quatrain II-48 relates to Paris (and through which to the 'Sirius/ark complex')... but there is one last thing to add to all this. And this is my favorite part :) Well, we've looked at every line of the quatrain, so what's left? Ah, yes we left out the number of the quatrain 2 and 48. Why, of course, those numbers are the coordinates of Paris (Paris: 2.3 deg. E & 48.8 deg. N)!
Now let's shift our focus back to II-41 and do more in-depth study:
Century II - 41 The great star will burn for seven days, The cloud will make double sun appear: The large mastiff will howl all night When the great pontiff changes his abode.
Like earlier pointed out, 'great star', 'burn', and 'seven' relate to Sirius. Now we can associate the "great star" with the Place Charles de Gaulle (Arc de Triomphe + the surrounding circular "square") since it was originally called the Place d'Etoile or 'Square of theStar', further linking the two quatrains II-41 and II-48.
From a slightly different angle, the fragments of Comet SL-9 'burned' Jupiter for about '7 days' in July 1994 and caught the attention of the world. The dates of this 'light show' were July 16~22 which roughly coincides with one of the key 'Sirius dates', July 20, mentioned earlier. Moreover, the dates July 16~22 very closely matches the dates of the historic Apollo 11 mission - first ever manned landing on the Moon - which were July 16~24 (and the landing occurred on the key date, July 20). This is meaningful especially when you consider the fact that Apollo the sun god could be identified with Horus the sun god (the son of Isis, and earlier associated with Sirius and Mars). Recall also that July 20 was associated with the 'flood' (of the Nile) in conjunction with Sirius. In Greco-Roman mythology, the god who causes the Flood to punish mankind is Jupiter - the very planet Comet SL-9 crashed into. And Jupiter was mythologically associated with the 'eagle' - the very name of the spacecraft that landed on the moon on that exact flood/Sirius date, July 20 (1969)!
So, in various ways Line 1 corresponds to the Sirius complex.
Besides the 'double sun' reference to Sirius, this line still continues the allusion to the Jupiter-Comet SL-9 collision - the 'cloud' of the fragmented comet colliding with Jupiter to produce a great light show (becoming the 'second sun'). As previously stated, the "mastiff" alludes to Sirius the 'Dog Star'. But a new interpretation can be derived from this line when combined with the 'hypnotic interpretation' by 'Brenda' of this line presented in Dolores Cannon's 'Conversations With Nostradamus' material:
I must say that this sounds like it may relate to the Knights Templar after whose tradition the Jesuits are structured. This would be very congruent since the Templars are intimately associated with the ark/Grail and so also naturally with Sirius the 'Dog Star'. And the CWN hypnotic interpretation and my own converge nicely.
On another level of interpretation, the "private army" of the pope could be in reference to a military corps known as the Swiss Guard that the Vatican maintains and whose function is to protect the pope and his personal residence. Remarkably, here we again see a Switzerland connection (in the name). Remember that Switzerland has been linked with the Templars and the 'ark' earlier. But it gets even more interesting: it turns out that King Louis XIII of France also had a body of soldiers called Swiss Guards to protect him. But they all died on August 10, 1792 during the French Revolution while defending the royal palace in Paris. So, we meet Paris again. The date August 10 is intriguing too as it is only one day before a total eclipse over Europe (Aug. 11, 1999). And it is said (I haven't really checked) that the 'eclipse zone' passes exactly at Paris in the midday! Paris again... I feel there will be a 'resonance' of the demise of King Louis XIII's Swiss Guards manifested around that time. This likely correlates with the sudden dissolution of the Knights Templar on Oct. 13, 1307, when they were betrayed by the pope at the time. And here comes the last line of the quatrain...
Notice that this line shifts the focus from Sirius to the issue of the Church completely, even though the foregoing interpretations made this transition very smooth. And this line is relatively straightforward. The implication is that we may see the Church in upheaval in the summer/fall of 1999.
Incredibly, if we go back to Line 2, it appears to describe the nature of the upheaval in more detail:
LINE 2: "The cloud will make double sun appear"
This now can be interpreted to be referring to the next pope election. To see the connection, we need to first look at the process of the election. The most common way to elect a pope is by ballot. By lot, the cardinals choose from their group three who collect the ballots of the infirm, three who counts the votes and three reviewers of the results. Two votes are taken every morning and two every afternoon until a two-thirds plus one majority is obtained. The crowd in St. Peter's Square follow the bolloting by watching the smoke that comes from the chimney on the palace roof. The smoke is from burning all the ballots. If the necessary majority is not reached, the ballots are burned in a way that creates black smoke. When the majority is reached, the ballots are burned in a manner that creates white smoke to signal the election.
Now, the word Nostradamus used for "cloud" was 'nuee' which actually implies a big/black cloud rather than a nice/white cloud. Therefore a more fitting translation would be:
"Black cloud will make double sun appear"
Next, the "sun" appearing is symbolic of the successor to Pope John Paul II, because he is the 'pope of the solar eclipse' (JPII was born during a solar eclipse May 18, 1920; and he was given the name "De labore Solis" - 'of the eclipse of the sun' - by St. Malachy, an Irish bishop who visited Rome in 1139 and supposedly had a prophetic vision in which he saw all the popes that would sit in St. Peter's Chair. And he identified the future popes by two-word Latin mottoes which correspond to the most striking events of their reign or by their coat-of-arms. They appear to be surprisingly accurate). I don't think I need to point out its relevance to the solar eclipse of Aug. 11, '99. So, continuing, the 'sun appearing' would metaphorically refer to the pope who follows the 'eclipse pope', John Paul II.
But the line says there would be 'two' suns. When combined with the "black cloud" part (which means unsuccessful vote), it's not that difficult to derive the meaning of the whole line; it would refer to a situation of 'pope vs. antipope' (i.e. one elected or claiming to be pope in opposition to the pope canonically chosen). And the indications are that those two 'popes' will be the last popes. At least there are no more popes after them in Malachy's prophetic list of popes. Perhaps it could be viewed that the dissolution of the Church is to begin in the summer/fall of 1999 with the next election.
Remarkably, it turns out, this Church issue is applicable to the other quatrain, II-48, and especially its second line:
LINE 2: "Saturn in the Arc turning from the fish Mars"
As mentioned earlier, the "Arc" can be applied to the Alps which forms a big nice arc at the northern end of Italy. And "the fish Mars" symbolically allude to the cardinals (from whom a pope is elected), because the cardinals wear a red dress and a red cap, the color of Mars; and St. Peter, the first pope, was a fisherman - and the role of a pope is referred to as a "fisher of men". Now, coincidentally, one of the cardinals considered likely to succeed Pope John Paul II, Cardinal Carlo Martini, is the archbishop of Milan, Italy which happens to be located right inside the Alps' "arc" at the northern edge of Italy. This suggest that Cardinal Milan will be involved in the coming trouble of the papal election
Amazingly, the very same line alludes to another participant in the schism. The key is to interpret the "arc" as the arcs of latitude/longitude (which are indeed 'arcs' drawn on the surface of the planet). And it just happens that the long./lat. "arcs"/ 'coordinates', based on the quatrain # '2-48', corresponds to Paris as explained earlier; and Paris happens to be the location of Cardinal Jean-Marie Lustiger, the archbishop of Paris, who is also regarded as a very strong candidate to succeed John Paul II! Cardinal Lustiger is also a Jew (but believes Jesus was the savior), which is interesting because the prophetic motto St. Malachy gave to the next pope is "Glory of the Olive (Tree)" and the olive tree is a common Roman symbol for Jedea/Palestine. Furthermore, this Christian-Jew mix can be compared to the "fish Mars" from the same line of II-48 because it can be taken to mean 'Pisces Aries' which corresponds to Christianity and Judaism. (Jesus represents the beginning of the Age of Pisces and Moses signified the Age of Aries.)
So, we seem to have found the candidates for the next two popes who will be involved in the destruction of the Church. The reason why "Saturn" ("in the Arc") would correspond to both Cardinal Martini and Cardinal Lustiger since both can be viewed to be "in the Arc" as we've just seen is perhaps because they together bring about the end of an era, or time, just as Saturn represents 'Time the destroyer'.
This concludes the discussion on the Church matter, but let us take another look at II-41 and interpret them on a different level.
First, let me mention that the hypnotic interpretations of the CWN material indicates that II-41 and II-48 relate to a "light display" associated with extraterrestrial intelligence (!). Looking at Line 1~3 of II-41, I can't help but theorize that this "light display" would have to do with Sirius:
Those lines just strike me as collectively describing how Sirius will be 'screaming' in the sky. It correlates strongly with X-72's second line "From the sky will come a great King of terror/appeasing King" (the "appeasing King" => Jason of the Argo/ark => Sirius). Of course there are many ways Sirius can "howl" (metaphorically), but let me present some especially intriguing possibilities.
Consider the following: Sirius was called the 'Arrow star', and the Sanskrit word for 'an arrow, 'ishu', also means 'ray of light', and the Dogon tradition tells us that the ray of Digitaria (i.e. Sirius B) sweeps the Earth once a year. This imagery of an arrow-like ray of light that periodically 'sweeps' the Earth strongly reminds me of one particular type of star - a 'pulsar'. A 'pulsar' is a virtually dead star, a neutron star, that rotates rapidly and causes electromagnetic beams to be emitted like a lighthouse (i.e. rotating light beams). The unique thing about pulsars is that their light emission is focused into 'arrow-like' beams and not omni-directional like most light sources in the sky. Therefore, the visibility of a pulsar depends on the geometry involved between the pulsar and the observer. So it is possible that a pulsar that's been invisible to us for a long time suddenly appears in the sky due to some slow-shifting geometric relationship.
What I'm getting at, is that there may be a pulsar in the Sirius system that's about to be observable for us on Earth. And this would make the "double sun" of Sirius. But will it be Sirius B? I'm not sure. Sirius B is considered to be a 'white dwarf' and 'white dwarfs' are not known to develop into pulsars, so scientifically it's unlikely, but science is always revising itself so I won't rule out the possibility of some unknown mechanism that lets Sirius B become a pulsar.
But there is another possibility I'd like to mention here. It's 'emme ya'/'Sirius C' - claimed by the Dogon to exist but not yet confirmed by scientific observation. According to the Dogon tradition, this star "throws out two pairs of radii (beams)" and it's "the only star which emits these beams which have the quality of solar rays" ('Sirius Mystery', pp44-45). These descriptions remarkably match the characteristics of a pulsar! I mean, what other celestial bodies "throws pairs of... beams" besides pulsars? Furthermore, 'emme ya/Sirius C is called the 'sun of women', 'a little sun', and it is said to be accompanied by a satellite called the 'star of Women'. And this 'star of women' is represented by the sign of a 'cross', which correlates with the astrological 'grand cross' of Aug. 18, '99 (also the date for Cassini-earth 'crossing') and the cross of christianity, the Knights Templar, etc. - all relevant to Sirius.
So it seems possible that the 'light display' refers to the discovery/appearance of another star in the Sirius system (emme ya/Sirius C) which may be a pulsar.
If the Sirius "light display" of this kind and the Church schism are to occur, they will likely coincide with each other timing-wise. And the key period seems to be the summer/fall of 1999. Keep in mind, however, that those two are not the only projected events - for example, we have the Mars/Cydonia/Atlantis issues (still Sirius-related though). Notice that the quatrain # of II-41 we just looked at contains the Cydonia/NYC latitude number '41'.
Also, we're also likely to experience some unexpected events that will fit the quatrains and interpretations nicely - and we'll learn from it.
Tema anterior
Primer 
This last line of the quatrain strongly reinforces the concepts put forward by the interpretation of the previous lines. The last word of the line "polemars" is not a real word, most likely it's a made-up word / anagram. Decoding is not that difficult - first we'll divide it into two words, 'pole' and 'Mars'. Continued from previous interpretations, it is not hard to see that the "pole" would refer to the 'Eiffel Tower' that stands in the' Field of Mars'.
Notice that the park, the Field of Mars ("Champ de Mars"), seemingly crosses over the river. The Seine River can be viewed as dividing the park and there is a bridge connecting the two parts. Since the park area can be viewed metaphorically as "fish" based on previous interpretations, notice how the park left of the river can be viewed as the "head" of the fish barely 'hanging on' to the body, the Field of Mars, by the bridge or the "thread" from "polemars" / the Field of Mars. Thus it would fit Line 4.
need to first look at the process of the election. The most common way to elect a pope is by ballot. By lot, the cardinals choose from their group three who collect the ballots of the infirm, three who counts the votes and three reviewers of the results. Two votes are taken every morning and two every afternoon until a two-thirds plus one majority is obtained. The crowd in St. Peter's Square follow the bolloting by watching the smoke that comes from the chimney on the palace roof. The smoke is from burning all the ballots. If the necessary majority is not reached, the ballots are burned in a way that creates black smoke. When the majority is reached, the ballots are burned in a manner that creates white smoke to signal the election.