Quatrain 2.97[2] Pius VI disease

Romain Pontife garde de t'aprocher,

De la cite qui deux fleuues arrouse:

Ton sang viendras aupres de la cracher

Toy & les tiens quand fleurira la rose.

Roman Pontiff beware of approaching

The city that two rivers flow through,

Near there you will spit blood,

You and yours when the rose will flourish.

The city that two rivers flow through it is Valence, located at the confluence of Isere and the Rhone.

Roman Pontiff it is Pius VI. He did not want to give up secular power when Berthier proclaimed the Roman Republic, and was captured by order of Napoleon I. The old and sick Pope was transported several times from one city to another. In Valence vomiting blood began of him, and be died on 29 August 1799.

The last line indicates daylight saving time. The pope died in August – apparently he was sick in the summer.

Connection with other quatrains: 8.99.