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Nostradamus himself was in great danger of mounting the faggots himself. He was already under suspicion, because only two generations earlier the Notredames had been the Gassonets, a Jewish family that had converted to Catholicism under pressure. Worse, letters discovered in the Bibliothèque Nationale in Paris prove that he was ... a secret heretic——a Lutheran, surprisingly enough, in view of that sects strong anti-Semitic bias.
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Over the years Nostradamus (the Latin version of his name) became a practitioner of astrology and related occult arts. He published his first book, an astrological almanac (issued annually for several years), in 1550. Five years later he issued a popular book of recipes for cosmetics and various medical remedies. That same year he ... published the first edition of the book from which his current fame is largely derived, The Centuries.
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By 1554 Nostradamus had settled in Marseilles. In November that year, the Provence experienced one of the worst floods of its history. The plague redoubled in virulence, spread by the waters and the polluted corpses. Nostradamus worked ceaselessly. Once the city had recovered, Nostradamus moved on to Salon de Croux, which he found so pleasant a town that he determined to settle there for the rest of his life. In November he married Anne Ponsart Gemelle, a rich widow.
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Jean-Charles de Fontbrune, Nostradamus, historien et prophète. Ses prophéties de 1555 à l'an 2000 (1980) Cet ouvrage, peu scientifique, est nommé ici compte tenu du grand succès que lui fit le public.
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Folklore says that Queen Catherine de Medicis asked Nostradamus to conduct a séance for her in her beautiful castle of Chaumont. Her husband, Henry II, had just died and she wanted to know the fate of her sons, the Valois royal line. Nostradamus directed the séance. By staring into a “magic mirror” the “angel” (from a Christian perspective a demonic entity impersonating an angel) Anael (nonexistent in the Bible) was invoked.
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Skeptics cast doubt upon the interpretation of Nostradamus's quatrains (Randi 1993). Here is how James Randi and Cheetham read one of the more famous quatrains, allegedly predicting the rise of Adolph Hitler to power in Germany:
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