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The Montpellier medical faculty expels Nostredame as an apothecary, a manual trade barred by statute

Faculty statutes that barred manual trades are a labour-gate. In the causal graph this event weakens the driver Labour-Market Tightness.

Sources: [1][2]

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It is not a recovered autograph diploma, and it is not a later encyclopedia caption as a second act.

Context

Faculty statutes that barred manual trades are a labour-gate. Shared work with unnamed procurators and later biographers remains in the file. Agen practice in the 1530s is a neighbouring heading, not this expulsion.

Nostradamus’s documented role is bounded by other offices and collaborators named in the sources below.

Conventional years are 1503–1566. Britannica records medical practice at Agen in the 1530s despite never having taken a medical degree and an apparent expulsion.

Why it matters

A faculty bar on apothecaries is a labour-market gate of medium confidence on the exact folio, high that standard lives record an expulsion rather than a completed doctorate.

Who was responsible

Contribution type and responsibility level for each recorded actor — not sole-author shorthand.

  • Nostradamus

    Person

    Direct responsibility

    responsibility level 0.4 · verified

What changed

Fact → Driver → Indicator. Relationship strength orders the paths; it is not the observed indicator movement.

    1. FactThe Montpellier medical faculty expels Nostredame as an apothecary, a manual trade barred by statute
    2. weakensDriverLabour-Market Tightness

    impact weight 0.5 · Effect from 1 January 1529 · verified

    A faculty bar on apothecaries is a labour-market gate of medium confidence on the exact folio, high that standard lives record an expulsion rather than a completed doctorate.

Evidence

The sources behind this fact and its verification state.

Verified2 sources on file
  1. 1.Jewish Virtual Library — NostradamusJewish Virtual Library · High credibility · verified
  2. 2.Britannica — NostradamusEncyclopaedia Britannica · High credibility · verified
What the sources establish

Britannica states that Nostradamus began medical practice at Agen in the 1530s despite never having taken a medical degree and that he was apparently expelled from medical school.

Nostradamus did not file a later UNESCO form, a later Loeb colophon, or a later museum label as a personal act.

Causal path

How this event connects to drivers and indicators in the graph.

  1. ActorNostradamus
  2. contributed toFactThe Montpellier medical faculty expels Nostredame as an apothecary, a manual trade barred by statute
  3. weakensDriverLabour-Market Tightness

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Factrail. (2026). The Montpellier medical faculty expels Nostredame as an apothecary, a manual trade barred by statute. Factrail. https://factrail.ai/facts/nos-montpellier-expulsion-1529

https://factrail.ai/facts/nos-montpellier-expulsion-1529

Accessed 17 October 2026.

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