This is one of
Nostradamus'
wacky prophecies. He dated it as the middle of
July,
1999. A few years ago, lots of
really smart people were talking about this
prophecy and things like
Soviet warplanes and the
end of the world in the
same breath.
I checked yesterday, and Paris seems to be fine, and no one I talked to on the streets had any knowledge of an inexorable battalion of destructive birds bearing down upon the city from the east.
This is also the title of a song by the band Coil off their latest album, Musick to Play in the Dark.