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Nostradamus: Michel Nostradamus
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Nostradamus was born Michel de Nostredame in St. Remy, France on December 14, 1503. As a youth, he spent a great deal of time with his grandfather learning languages, mathematics, astronomy and astrology. He majored in liberal arts at the University of Avignon, and graduated from the medical school at the University of Montpellier. He practiced medicine and was known for successfully treating plague victims in the areas surrounding Montpellier. In 1534, Nostradamus married his first wife and had two children. Shortly thereafter, he lost his entire family to the plague, and traveled Europe for the next six years.
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Nostradamus is the Latinized name of a sixteenth-century French prophet named Michel de Notredame. Since his death in 1566, scholars and lay people have remained fascinated by Nostradamus's forecasts, in which many future events seem to have been uncannily divined. The French Revolution, the rise of fascism in 1930s Europe, and the explosion of a U.S. space shuttle were supposedly prophesied by the Renaissance scholar.
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Being a great healer and giving man through out his life, Nostradamus would share his vast fortune with his new home town. The problem with Salon was that it received to little rain for crops, plants and people alike. So Michel teamed up with a local architect and hydraulic engineer Adam de Craponne, to solve the problem. Michel put a great deal of his own money into the project to bring water from the Dehorns River through a series of networks and canals. Even after his death, his widow provided more funding to the project which was successfully completed, although it was way after the death of Michel Nostredame.
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Nostradamus is a dull telling of a supposedly exciting visionary figure of the 16th century. The filmmaker, Roger Christian, took the magic out of Michel de Nostradamus (Tchéky Karyo) and made him into a sensible figure of the dark ages and not like the controversial genius he was supposed to be. The prophet's sexiest prediction is of the death of France's adulterous King Henry II in a joust. This makes his wife Catherine De Medici (Plummer) quite pleased. She even saves Nostradamus from the Inquistion when he's accused of a crime against God for manipulating the king's death. His predictions of the future are seen when he has fainting spells, rolls his eyes as if he's going into a swoon, or becoming dizzy looking at water in a basin.
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Michel de Nostredame, better known as Nostradamus, was born in St. Rémy, Provence into a well-educated Jewish family, who had acquired their property in the grain trade. His parents converted to Catholicism, which made Nostradamus both familiar with the occult wisdom of the Kabbalah and the prophecies of the Bible. Michel was the eldest son; Bertrand, the second son passed into oblivion - they both were duly baptized. At home Michel was educated in Hebrew, Latin, Greek, astronomy and other sciences. At the age of nineteen he was sent to study medicine at the University of Montpellier. In Avignon he had read works on magic and the occult.
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Michel de Nostradamus (1503-1566) was born into a family of Christianized Jews in the town of St. Rémy in France. His father was a prosperous grain trader. (3) His grandfathers served as the personal physicians of King René. Both of them shaped the mind and life of their grandson by seeing to it that he was instructed in the classics, history, medicine, astrology, and herbal folk lore. He was ... introduced to the secret arts of the Kabbalah and alchemy. (4)
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