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Michel de Nostredame, usually Latinised as Nostradamus, was a French astrologer, apothecary, physician, and reputed seer, who is best known for his book Les Prophéties, a collection of 942 poetic quat
Portrait by his son César [fr], c. 1614, nearly fifty years after his death
![Portrait by his son César [fr], c. 1614, nearly fifty years after his death](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c6/Nostradamus_by_Cesar.jpg/500px-Nostradamus_by_Cesar.jpg)
Nostradamus's claimed birthplace, Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, photographed in 1997
Nostradamus's house at Salon-de-Provence, as reconstructed after the 1909 Provence earthquake
Century I, Quatrain 1 in the 1555 Lyon Bonhomme edition
The prophecies of the 16th-century author Nostradamus have become a part of the popular culture of the 20th and 21st centuries. Nostradamus' life has been depicted in both fiction and non-fiction book
Nostradamus
…they have been quite extraordinarily so. Over two hundred editions of them have appeared in that time, together with over 2,000 commentaries. Their persistence in popular culture seems to be partly because their vagueness and lack of dating make it easy to quote them selectively after every major dramatic event and retrospectively…
Estant assis de nuict secret estude, Seul repousé sus la selle d'aerain; Flambe exigue sortant de solitude Faict proferer qui n'est à croire vain. (Century I.1, 1555)
Lower Manhattan, September 11, 2001
St Luke Painting the Madonna by Jan Mabuse
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