According to some, he predicted the French Revolution, the rise of Napoleon, the collapse of the New York towers in 2001, and even the burning of Notre-Dame.
For others, his writings are nothing but deception and mystification.
Who to believe?
Mireille Huchon, professor at the Sorbonne and specialist in the Renaissance, does not settle this debate, because his purpose is less to recount the fortune of Nostradamus' predictions than to restore who he really was.
A subtle undertaking, because the author, while pointing out the reappearance of documents making it possible to better understand this
"enigmatic personality",
observes that these sources must be considered
"with caution"
.
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Born in 1503, in Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, in a family descended, on the paternal side, of Jews from Avignon, Michel de Nostredame studied in Avignon and at the Faculty of Medicine of Montpellier.
There is no record of his diploma, but that does not mean that he was not a doctor, at a time when the border between medicine,
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