Fake Nostradamus passages invented by Francois Gautier and published in TOI, Zee News for Modi publicity

NOTE: The Times of India first deleted the blog from its website after Alt News’s report and later restored the blog with a disclaimer. Here’s the original text of the TOI blog => http://archive.is/Xge6M.

A blog titled ‘Nostradamus and India‘ was published on The Times of India website on March 28, 2017. Francois Gautier, the author of this blog, claims to have chanced upon some hidden manuscripts according to which Nostradamus predicted that a supreme leader will be born in the state of Gujarat and his first name would be Narendrus (Narendra). Francois Gautier claims that these manuscripts were discovered in 2012. He writes:

So, in 2012, some Nostradamus specialist discovered an old trunk that had these magical pronouncements. The only problem with this claim is that in the 51st volume of RSS weekly magazine Organiser published in 1999, it has been claimed that “an old trunk” was discovered just last month by “hopeless hinduphile Francois Gautier” and according to the manuscripts, it was Nostradamus who had founded RSS 400 years ago.

In fact, the “old trunk” has been found at least two times in the books that Francois Gautier has himself authored according to a search on Google Books.

The “old trunk” was found in the “last month” in his 2001 book titled ‘A Western Journalist on India’ and the 2003 book titled ‘Rewriting Indian history.’

In fact, Francois Gautier has discovered the “old trunk” so many times over that it is difficult to keep track. He discovered it in his 2009 blog titled ‘Nostradamus and Saffron’, then again in his 2014 blog titled ‘Nostradamus and 2014’ elections. And the latest discovery of the “old trunk” happened on March 28, 2017 on the TOI blog. In fact, every time Gautier discovers this “old trunk”, the contents inside the trunk seem to change magically. The Nostradamus predictions coming out of this same “old trunk” vary from Nostradamus actually having founded RSS to Narendra Modi, the supreme leader of India, being born in Gujarat.

Be that as it may, let us also look at some of the passages that Gautier has posted in the TOI article. One of the passages according to Gautier relates to a possibility of an Indo-Pakistan nuclear war. The following is the passage quoted in the TOI article.

As it turns out, a quick Google search is all that was needed to establish that this passage posted in TOI is a modified version and not original. The word “Indes” signifying India is not in the original passage and was a creation of Gautier’s mind.

Let’s look at the next passage posted by Gautier in the TOI blog.

Yet another quick Google search tells us that even this passage has been modified from its original version. The original passage has the word “Hesperies” instead of “Hindoos”.

One can see how Gautier’s writings are purely a figment of his imagination and has got nothing to do with reality. He takes content from one place, changes a couple of words and proclaims a new prophecy by Nostradamus, one which has been found in that same “old trunk” that he has discovered multiple times in the last 18 years. Let’s look at the next passage.

Now a Google search would reveal that an equivalent of this passage is not available on the internet, not documented anywhere, even in parts. But Gautier being Gautier always leaves a few gaping holes. In a 2014 blog on his own website, he claims:

In 2014, Nostradamus used to like to call Narendra Modi as “Narendrum Modum” and in 2017 he likes to call PM Modi as “narendrus”. It doesn’t end there. In 2014, he claimed that Vajpayee, Advani and Modi will be the pillars. In a 2009 blog on his own website, he had claimed that AB Vajpayee, LK Advani and Murli Manohar Joshi will be the three pillars. He had written and I quote:

So, from Murli Manohar Joshi as the pillar in 2009 to Narendra Modi as the pillar in 2014 to Narendra Modi as the supreme leader of India in 2017, Gautier has been conveniently changing the prophecies that come out of that “old trunk” based on the prevailing political climate. Yet, such blatant lies are given space in Indian media outlets without any verification. After the TOI blog, Zee News dutifully published this bit of ‘news’.