Nostradamus C4 Q64: The monarch whose interest lies in the concept of the Christian soul.
Copyright: Allan Webber, December 2015

The key to this verse lies in its anagrams referencing three cities, ancient Troy, Thebes and Venice.

From the anagrams alongside these city names we can detect a consistent theme for it indicates that an ill Theban rogue debit Louis (ill -an - t en hab - it de b- ourge ois L), Troy learned vice (ce Vi - endra le - Roy t) and Venice learned Troy temper (ence Vi -en dra le Roy t -empter).

But this verse has much more to contribute through its conformity to a pattern about people who seek to raise the dead and in particular Jesus.

Critical in this interpretation are the cluster of anagrams, for eulogiser (urgeois Le), glories (rgeois L), defiles (is Le def), soul (ſoul), deliverance ( nce Viendra l). It is these and others  that bind the underlying story to religious rituals concerning the dead.

And it is the links of habited Burgo ( habit de -bourg) that will eventually allow the tale to be tied to Jean de Bernuy and the sect who acted as Nostradamus' patrons.