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Nostradamus

Nostradamus

1503–1566

ProphecyMedicineRenaissance thought

French physician and astrologer whose cryptic quatrains became a cultural mirror for later ages reading meaning into ambiguity.

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  1. 1503personal

    Born in Provence

  2. 1521personal

    University of Avignon interrupted

  3. 1529controversy

    Expelled from Montpellier

  4. 1531personal

    First marriage

  5. 1534personal

    Family dies in plague

  6. 1547personal

    Settled in Salon-de-Provence

  7. 1550work

    First almanac published

  8. 1555highlight

    Les Prophéties published

  9. 1556highlight

    Summoned by Catherine de' Medici

  10. 1561controversy

    Brief imprisonment

  11. 1566death

    Death in Salon

  12. post-1566legacy

    Endless reinterpretation

Life chapters will appear here once the autobiography track is generated.

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