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King Charles IX of France and his mother, Catherine de Medici. Both had met Nostradamus, and both figured in a number of his prophetic quatrains.
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The titlepage of the first translation into English of Nostradamus' 'Prophecies', translated by Theophilus de Garencieres in 1672 [this is the rare 1685 edition], as 'The True Prophecies or Prognostications of Michael Nostradamus.'
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This hand-coloured woodengraving portays the event which became [in the sixteenth century at least] the most important of Nostradamus' prophecies. Henri died in consequence of the accident portrayed in the print, when the lance of his opponent slivvered and pierced his eye. The woodcut is from Tortorel and Perrissin, 1570.
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NOSTRADAMUS (1503-1566). <br>French physician and astrologer. Line engraving, 16th century.
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NOSTRADAMUS (1503-1566). <br>French physician and astrologer. French engraving, 19th century.
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NOSTRADAMUS (1503-1566). <br>French physician and astrologer. French line engraving, 19th century.
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CÉSAR NOSTRADAMUS <br>(1555-1629). French painter, poet and historian; son of physician and astrologer Michel Nostradamus. Woodcut, French, 17th century.
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Nostradamus (Michel de Nostradame) the French astrologer from Witchcraft, Magic and Alchemy by Grillot de Givry - Michel de Nostredame (December 14, 1503 - July 2, 1566), usually Latinized to Nostradamus, was a French apothecary and reputed seer who published collections of prophecies that have since become famous world-wide. He is best known for his book Les Propheties, the first edition of which appeared in 1555.<br>©TopFoto
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Nostradamus manuscripts, showing the signature.
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Michel Nostradamus.<br>1506 - 1566
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Frontispiece, depicting [top] the execution of Charles I at Whitehall, and [bottom] the Fire of London of 1666. The frontispiece is from the 1668 Amsterdam edition of Nostradamus' 'Les Vrayes Centuries et Propheties.'
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Vignette portrait of Nostradamus from the 1568 [supposed] edition of 'Les Propheties de M. Michel Nostradamus.'
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Vignette portrait of Nostradamus from the titlepage of the 1940 edition of 'Les Vraies Centuries et Propheties de Michel Nostradamus' by Charles Reynaud-Plense.
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Nostradamus at work in his study, with a rectangular surround depicting the twelve symbols for the signs of the zodiac, along with their corresponding sigils. Vignette from Nostradamus' 'Les Significations de l'Eclipse.... 1559.'
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Fantasy, combining element of the early nineteenth century Epinal print with the opening page of the Propheties.
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Portrait of Cesar de Nostradame, the son of Nostradamus. Painting in the Salle des Mariages, in the Town Hall, Salon, Provence.
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Statue of Nostradamus sculpted in 1866 by Joseph Re, in Place de Gaulle, Salon, Provence.
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Nostradamus portrayed within the celestial orbs, alongside various symbols relating to his prophecies. Artwork commissioned by CW of Meraylah Allwood.
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Plat from the 1829 cadastre for Saint-Remy, Provence, showing the location of the house formerly owned by the Nostradamus family, and the one in which Michel Nostradamus was born - here numbered 676. The original cadastre is in the Municipal Library, in Saint-Remy, who gave graciously permission for the photograph to be taken.
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Circular portrait of Nostradamus, set within a framework of arcane symbols derived from the alchemical tradition.
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Portrait of Nostradamus, seated at his desk, within a rectangular surround decorated with the images and sigils for the twelve signs of the zodiac. Image from the titlepage of Nostradamus' Les Significations de l'Eclipse [of 16 September 1559). Private Collection.
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Hand-coloured engraved portrait of Nostradamus: from Anatole le Pelletier, Les Oracles de Michel de Nostredame, dit Nostradamus (1867).
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Varitation on the 1808 Epinal portrait, with Nostradamus placed over the opening page of his 'Propheties'.
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Hand-coloured engraving, used as frontispiece to Guynaud's 'Concordance des Propheties de Nostradamus', 1693.
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Tondo, painted in oils: portrait of Nostradamus. Probably twentieth century, but painted to simulate a much earlier period. In the foyer of the Valruges hotel, Saint-Remy [Provence].
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Edition of 'Les Propheties' publishewd by Pierre Abegou in Bordeaux, 1689. Misplaced title-page to first part of the book, at page 69: a bibliophile's rarity. From the library of David Ovason.
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The 1693 edition of Guynaud's important study of Nostradamus, 'La Concordance des Propheties...', published in Paris by Jacques Morel. From the library of David Ovason.
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The famous engraved frontispiece ot the 1668 Amsterdam edition of 'Les Vrayes Propheties' published by Jean Iansson. The image portrays the recent events [predicted in the sixteenth century by Nostradamus] of the beheading of King Charles I, and the Great Fire of London. From the library of David Ovason.
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Portrait [presumably originally an ink drawing] of Michel Nostradamus by Honore Daumier. From 'Almanach Prophetique, Pittoresque et Utile pour 1848'. From the library of David Ovason.
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Hand-coloured portrait frontispiece to the 97th edition of the 'Propheties', printed in Rouen by Jean-Baptiste Besongne, in 1710.
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Hand-coloured photogravure by Loire Michelet, dated 15 September 1862, afer a drawing by Torne-Chavingy, from the latter's 'Influence de Nostredamus dans le Governement de la France (1871).
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The Great Comet of 1577, which so deeply influenced the work and life of Tycho Brahe, and which had been predicted, twenty years earlier by Michel Nostradamus. The comet's movement is depicted in continuous represesentation, moving from Sagittarius to Pegasus. From a contemporaneous broadsheet.<br>
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Bust of the sixteenth century astrologer, Nostradamus, modelled in 1859 by Liotard as the guide for his sculpture of the Seer which is now on the Nostradamus Fountain, in Saint Remy. The original is now in the Musee des Alpilles, Saint Remy.
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Nostradamus, 16th century French physician and astrologer, 1725. Portrait of Nostradamus or Michel de Nostredame (1503-1556) who wrote a series of famous but vague prophecies, and was court physician to King Charles IX of France. From 'Icones Virorum' by Friedrich Roth-Scholtz. (Nuremberg, 1725).
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Nostradamus's will, French doctor and astrologer, dated of 1566. RV-358554
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Nostradamus (1503-1566), French doctor and astrologer, seeming in front of Catherine of Medici ( 1519-1589 ), queen of France, the future kings of France in a magic mirror. According to a carving of 1710. RV-390214
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Calendar with Nostradamus (1503-1566), French doctor and astrologer, predicting time. BOY-16880
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Michel de Nostredame, says Nostradamus ( 1503-1566 ). Lithograph (XIX-th century). RV-47808
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Nostradamus's shadow predicts the death of the prince of Orange, Guillaume III ( 1650-1702 ), stathouder united provinces and king of England. FA-4601
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Explanation by Robertson of the Nostradamus's magic mirror (by that he showed to Catherine of Medici the future kings of France). Carving, 1887. RV-390215
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Michel Nostradamus ( 1503-1566 ), author of the astrological Centuries ( 1555 ). Epinal's image, by Canivet. RVB-00126
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Nostradamus (Michel of Notre-Dame, 1503-1566), French doctor and astrologer. Carving lime (XX-th century). RV-40424
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Michel de Nostradamus (1503-1566) - 16th century woodcut showing Nostradamus as vendor of almanacks. - Nostradamus was a French physician and astrologer who dabbled in prophecy. His volume Centuries, a big set of vague and often cataclysmic predictions set in quatrains, made quite a sensation in his day. (Charles IX even made him court physician.) A few people continue to believe that Nostradamus really could predict events of the future, from the rise of Adolf Hitler to the assassination of John F. Kennedy and the attacks on the Pentagon and the World Trade Center in September of 2001. In truth, there is no real proof that Nostradamus could accurately predict the future, and many of the circulating &quotpredictions" attributed to Nostradamus were not even written by him at all. - ©2004 Topfoto
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Sample of the manuscript hand of Michel de Nostradamus (1503-1566) from the curious Horapollo text - Nostradamus. Interpretation des Hieroglyphes de Horapollo ... par Pierre Rollet. - Nostradamus was a French physician and astrologer who dabbled in prophecy. His volume Centuries, a big set of vague and often cataclysmic predictions set in quatrains, made quite a sensation in his day. (Charles IX even made him court physician.) A few people continue to believe that Nostradamus really could predict events of the future, from the rise of Adolf Hitler to the assassination of John F. Kennedy and the attacks on the Pentagon and the World Trade Center in September of 2001. In truth, there is no real proof that Nostradamus could accurately predict the future, and many of the circulating &quotpredictions" attributed to Nostradamus were not even written by him at all. - ©2004 Topfoto
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Sample of the handwriting of Michel de Nostradamus (1503-1566) from a facsimile of his last testament, with his signature at the bottom. - Nostradamus was a French physician and astrologer who dabbled in prophecy. His volume Centuries, a big set of vague and often cataclysmic predictions set in quatrains, made quite a sensation in his day. (Charles IX even made him court physician.) A few people continue to believe that Nostradamus really could predict events of the future, from the rise of Adolf Hitler to the assassination of John F. Kennedy and the attacks on the Pentagon and the World Trade Center in September of 2001. In truth, there is no real proof that Nostradamus could accurately predict the future, and many of the circulating &quotpredictions" attributed to Nostradamus were not even written by him at all. - ©2004 Topfoto
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Signature of Michel de Nostradamus (1503-1566) done in 1566, the year of his death, with curious insigillations. From a letter to Raoul de Tricqueville, from Torne-Chavigny, dated Paris, 1879. - Nostradamus was a French physician and astrologer who dabbled in prophecy. His volume Centuries, a big set of vague and often cataclysmic predictions set in quatrains, made quite a sensation in his day. (Charles IX even made him court physician.) A few people continue to believe that Nostradamus really could predict events of the future, from the rise of Adolf Hitler to the assassination of John F. Kennedy and the attacks on the Pentagon and the World Trade Center in September of 2001. In truth, there is no real proof that Nostradamus could accurately predict the future, and many of the circulating &quotpredictions" attributed to Nostradamus were not even written by him at all. - ©2004 Topfoto
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Nostradamus - De M Michel Nostradamus. Dont il en y a trois cents qui n'ont encoresiamais efte imprimees. A Lyon, Chez Antoine du Rofne - Woodcut portrait of Nostradamus in his study, writing. From the title page of the 1557 edition of Les Propheties de M Michel Nostradamus. - Nostradamus was a French physician and astrologer who dabbled in prophecy. His volume Centuries, a big set of vague and often cataclysmic predictions set in quatrains, made quite a sensation in his day. (Charles IX even made him court physician.) A few people continue to believe that Nostradamus really could predict events of the future, from the rise of Adolf Hitler to the assassination of John F. Kennedy and the attacks on the Pentagon and the World Trade Center in September of 2001. In truth, there is no real proof that Nostradamus could accurately predict the future, and many of the circulating &quotpredictions" attributed to Nostradamus were not even written by him at all. - ©2004 Topfoto
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Nostradamus - Sample of his handwriting, from a facsimile of his last testament - Nostradamus was a French physician and astrologer who dabbled in prophecy. His volume Centuries, a big set of vague and often cataclysmic predictions set in quatrains, made quite a sensation in his day. (Charles IX even made him court physician.) A few people continue to believe that Nostradamus really could predict events of the future, from the rise of Adolf Hitler to the assassination of John F. Kennedy and the attacks on the Pentagon and the World Trade Center in September of 2001. In truth, there is no real proof that Nostradamus could accurately predict the future, and many of the circulating &quotpredictions" attributed to Nostradamus were not even written by him at all. - ©2004 Topfoto
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Michel Nostradamus - page from the 1668 edition of the Propheties of Nostradamus. The opening of Century VII, with the Legis Cautio Contra Ineptos Criticos, and the first two quatrains. - Nostradamus was a French physician and astrologer who dabbled in prophecy. His volume Centuries, a big set of vague and often cataclysmic predictions set in quatrains, made quite a sensation in his day. (Charles IX even made him court physician.) A few people continue to believe that Nostradamus really could predict events of the future, from the rise of Adolf Hitler to the assassination of John F. Kennedy and the attacks on the Pentagon and the World Trade Center in September of 2001. In truth, there is no real proof that Nostradamus could accurately predict the future, and many of the circulating &quotpredictions" attributed to Nostradamus were not even written by him at all. - ©2004 Topfoto
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Michel Nostradamus - page from the 1668 edition of the Propheties of Nostradamus. The opening of Century VII, with the Legis Cautio Contra Ineptos Criticos, and the first two quatrains. - Nostradamus was a French physician and astrologer who dabbled in prophecy. His volume Centuries, a big set of vague and often cataclysmic predictions set in quatrains, made quite a sensation in his day. (Charles IX even made him court physician.) A few people continue to believe that Nostradamus really could predict events of the future, from the rise of Adolf Hitler to the assassination of John F. Kennedy and the attacks on the Pentagon and the World Trade Center in September of 2001. In truth, there is no real proof that Nostradamus could accurately predict the future, and many of the circulating &quotpredictions" attributed to Nostradamus were not even written by him at all. - ©2004 Topfoto
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Portrait of Michel Nostradamus, the Prophet, with various airborne sigils. Nostradamus was used to verify the predictions of Tommaso Moult in propheties de Thomas-Joseph Moult, 1789 - Nostradamus was a French physician and astrologer who dabbled in prophecy. His volume Centuries, a big set of vague and often cataclysmic predictions set in quatrains, made quite a sensation in his day. (Charles IX even made him court physician.) A few people continue to believe that Nostradamus really could predict events of the future, from the rise of Adolf Hitler to the assassination of John F. Kennedy and the attacks on the Pentagon and the World Trade Center in September of 2001. In truth, there is no real proof that Nostradamus could accurately predict the future, and many of the circulating &quotpredictions" attributed to Nostradamus were not even written by him at all. - ©2004 Topfoto
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Portrait of Michel Nostradamus, pointing at the stars, with a celestial globe in front of him, from the title page of the 1698 edition of Les Propheties. - Nostradamus was a French physician and astrologer who dabbled in prophecy. His volume Centuries, a big set of vague and often cataclysmic predictions set in quatrains, made quite a sensation in his day. (Charles IX even made him court physician.) A few people continue to believe that Nostradamus really could predict events of the future, from the rise of Adolf Hitler to the assassination of John F. Kennedy and the attacks on the Pentagon and the World Trade Center in September of 2001. In truth, there is no real proof that Nostradamus could accurately predict the future, and many of the circulating &quotpredictions" attributed to Nostradamus were not even written by him at all. - ©2004 Topfoto
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The Great Fire of London. Detail of the fire, as predicted by Nostradamus, from the 1668 Amsterdam edition of Propheties. - ©2004 Topfoto<br><br><br><br>The Great Fire of London was a major fire that swept through the City of London from 14:00 September 2–5, 1666, and resulted more or less in the destruction of the city.
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Natal horoscope of Michel Nostradamus, cast for 14 December 1503 and 14 minutes past midday, at Saint-Remy en Provence. The house system is the Modus Rationalis of Regiomontanus (16th century). 1558 - ©2004 Topfoto
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The earliest known horoscope of Nostradamus, cast by John Gadbury for his Cardines Coeli of 1634. (16th century). 1558 - ©2004 Topfoto
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ASTROLOGY - ECLIPSES<br>A woodcut illustrating the effect of one of the seven eclipses which occured in the 'Dark Yeare' of 1652 - three of which were visible in England. From William Lilly, Annus Tenebrosus, or the Dark Year. Or Astrolgicall Judgements upon two Lunar Eclipses and one admirable eclips of the Sun, all visible in England, 1652.<br>
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UFOs<br>Unidentified flying objects in the skies on 7 August 1566 (the month after the death of Nostradamus), over the city of Basle, Switzerland. Loose reprint, after a broadsheet published in 1566.<br>
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MEDICAL - HEALTH BATH<br>Sixteenth century health bath (with some indication of sexual activity between the two bathers). This type of therapy was among those that Dr. Nostradamus practised. From the 1532 edition of Der Schapherders Kalender.<br>
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NOSTRADAMUS - CLIMATA<br>Nostradamus frequently made references to places by way of latitudes (in the 16th century normally called climata) familiar to him from ancient literature. This map of the World, as it was known to Stabo, offers an example of how remote from the modern visualisation the ancient realm was, and how inappropriate it is to translate the climata in terms merely of latitudes.<br><br>
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MEDICAL - BLOODLETTING<br>Sixteenth-century doctor bleeding a woman - the type of medicine which Nostradamus practised. From the 1532 edition of Der Schapherders Kalender.<br>
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ASTROLOGY - NOSTRADAMUS<br>The schema of the cosmos [Mundus Elementaris] according to the late mediaeval cosmology: an engraving from Johann Daniel Mylius, Opus Medico-Chymicum, 1618, used also in Janitor Pansophus, Seu Figura Aenea Quadripartita. According to this cosmology, the universe was a living thing, a ladder of spiritual being. The alchemical system portrayed in this complex diagram departs to some extent from the Theological system, and even from the standard Ptolemaic. The outer sphere consists of the zodiac, with its twelve images for the signs. In the conterminous sphere, are the corresponding sigils for the twelve signs, and an indication of which part of the human body these signs rule. The concentric next in descending order gives the twelve corresponding Months and seasons. Then, in the yellow concentric, follows the names of the four Elements, along with a sigil denoting the relevant Element, and a series of three sigils which are more difficult to explain: precisely why the Earth [Terra] should be linked with the sigils for Salt and Sulphur is not at all clear. Follows, in descending order, the planetary spheres, from Saturn to the Moon. In each case, the name of the ruler of the sphere is given: these correspond to the archangels of history, the Secundadeians, described by the occultist Trithemius, in De Septem Secundadeis, in 1522, which had a profound influence on the writings and dating system of the seer, Michel Nostradamus. The one deviation is the list of Archangels is the name of the archangel of Mars, who is given as Samuel, when it should properly be Samael. Below the sphere of the Moon, the spheres become more arcane. The first sublunar sphere makes various statements about the Trinities of the material plane - these are the Three Principles (of Salt, Mercury and Sulphur); the Three Worlds - Celestial, Material and Infernal; the Three Ages and the Three Reigns (no doubt a reference to Joachimite predictive philosophy w
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NOSTRADAMUS- Tablet with inscription on the facade of the house of Nostradamus, in Salon-en-Provence
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NOSTRADAMUS - Nostradamus and the personalities in his predicitons. The savant portrayed in front of the great men of history whom he mentioned (allegedly) in his quatrains. Engraving published 1862 by Torne a la Clotte, in his 'Influence de Nostradamus', 1878
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NOSTRADAMUS - Nostradamus and the personalities in hs predicitons. The savant portrayed in front of the great men of history whom he mentioned (allegedly) in his quatrains. Engraving published 1862 by Torne a la Clotte, in his 'Influence de Nostradamus' 1878
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NOSTRADAMUS - Fantasy portrait of Nostradamus with hour-glass
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NOSTRADAMUS- EVENTS PROPHECIED. In quatrain 8.68 (written in 1557), Nostradamus predicted the fate of Cardinal Richelieu (to whom he referred as the Old Cardinal) and predicted the date of his death, by means of astrological references. The Cardinal died on 4 December 1642, but his body was not embalmed until 24 February 1643, as Nostradamus predicted would happen. Richelieu at the Siege of La Rochelle - etching by Leopold Flameng after the painting by Henri Mott
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NOSTRADAMUS - EVENTS PROPHECIED. In quatrain 10:9 Nostradamus predicted a 'King who would never rule', the Never King (Onc Roy). This was the son of Louis XVI, who would have been Louis XVII, who died in prison, towards the end of the French Revolution, after the beheading of his mother (Marie Antoinette) and father. The print shows the Dauphin alone in the Temple Prison
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NOSTRADAMUS - EVENTS PROPHECIED<br>Verse 1 from Book 8 is one of the many verses written by Nostradamus about the coming of Napoleon, and about the blood he would spill in Europe. Some commentators insist that the first three words of his verse [PAU, NAY, LORON] are a scrambled version of Napoleon's name. Napoleon in 1814, painted by Messonier, and engraved 1886
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NOSTRADAMUS - EVENTS PROPHECIED. Nostradamus wrote several verses about Marie Antoinette. For example, in Book 9, verse 20, he wrote of her attempt to flee Paris, along with her husband (both were stopped at Varennes, which Nostradamus mentions in the verse). In quatrain 1:82 he writes of Antoinette imprisoned in the Temple - as she is portrayed here in the engraving by Lumb Stocks
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NOSTRADAMUS - EVENTS PROPHECIED. Among the many verses Nostradamus wrote about the coming of Napoleon is quatrain 8:1 (published in 1557). In this the prophet wrote of Napoleon's escape from Elba, and hinted at the hundred days which ended in Napoleon being taken by the British on the Bellerophon, into permanent and final exile. This engraving by J C Armytage, after the painting by Orchardson (circa 1885) portrays Napoleon on the Bellerophon
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NOSTRADAMUS - - PREDICTION OF NOVA. In Quatrain 2:41 (published 1555), Nostradamus predicted the Nova, or New Star, of 1572. The Nova appeared in the constellation of Cassiopeia, set in the back of her chair. The illustration is from Tycho Brahe, Astronomiae Instauratae Progymnasmata, 1602
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NOSTRADAMUS - GARCENCIERS. Portrait of Dr Garcenciers, who first translated the 'Prophecies' of Nostradamus into English, in 1672
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France, PR - St-Remy - Bust of Prophet Nostradamus in his birthplace
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