Is this really true?

[sagehen]

Ron Butters wrote:

>Does anyone know if the following is really true? (I realize that we are not
>historians of prophecy, but I don't know where else to turn!)
>
>>> In 1555, Nostradamus wrote:
>    >> Come the millennium, month 12,
>    >> In the home of greatest power,
>    >> The village idiot will come forth
>    >> To be acclaimed the leader.

"True" in what sense?  Did Nostradamus pen such a verse -- presumably in
Latin -- or is Shrub really a v.i.?
It struck me, when I got this from another source that it was a little TOO
neatly apt.  I suspect a hoax.
A. Murie