So you can copy stuff from Lemesurier's website. Big deal.

So you can copy stuff from Lemesurier's website. Big deal.

J.

Mark a écrit:

Michel de Nostredame (1503-66), later known as Nostradamus, was one of
the
leading lights of the late French Renaissance. A Jewish-French
contemporary
of Paracelsus and England's Dr John Dee, he is often supposed to have
been
(from 1530) at medical college with Rabelais: however, he is known to
have
been expelled again from the student body at Montpellier for having,
as an
apothecary, been rude about doctors, so this is at best uncertain. He was
certainly much admired by the poet Ronsard. As a physician (qualified or
not) he came to specialise in the Plague, on which he was recognised
to be
one of the foremost experts: in his Traité des fardemens, though, (see
below) he frankly admits that none of his cures actually had much
effect on
the disease - not even the blood-letting that some commentators insist
that
he never used. He was also famed somewhat as an 'astrologer', even though
his competence clearly left much to be desired, but he preferred to call
himself an 'astrophile', or 'star-lover'. On his semi-retirement in
around
1550 he turned to writing. Apart from a highly popular cookbook
(actually, a
'Treatise on Cosmetics and Conserves') and a number of academic works,
his
main fields were astrology and prophecy. This brought him into great
public
prominence, and he became particularly influential at the French
court. He
also invested heavily in local public works - notably the irrigation
of the
vast Plaine de la Crau just to the west of his adopted home-town of
Salon-de-Provence, a scheme whose results (like his house in the town)can
still be seen today. Twice married, he had two children by his first wife
Henriette d'Encausse (all three died) and six by his second (three
sons, of
whom the eldest was César [b.1554], and three daughters).

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