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Pierre d'Ailly - Prophesies the French revolution
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Background
Pierre d'Ailly, born about 1350, was Chancellor of the University of Paris, a philosopher, a scholar, almoner to the King of France, Bishop of Cambray, a cardinal, and a geographer whose book, "Imago mundi," may have influenced Columbus to seek a western route to the Indies. At any rate, Columbus possessed a copy. Some seventy years after d'Ailly's death, in 1490, another book of his was published which, among much that was revealing, laid stress upon the year 1789, as of predestined importance in French and human history.
That year, on July 14th, the Bastille was stormed and the French Revolution actually began. What Cardinal d'Ailly wrote of 1789 was this:
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Should the world still remain in existence at that time, which God alone knows, then astounding upheavals and transformations will occur which will effect our laws and political structure
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References
Laura A. Smoller, History, Prophecy, and the Stars: The Christian Astrology of Pierre D'Ailly, 1350-1420. Princeton University Press (Princeton, NJ; 1994