# The Montpellier medical faculty expels Nostredame as an apothecary, a manual trade barred by statute Date: 1529 ## The fact Britannica states that [Nostradamus](/people/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. The dated public instrument stored here is that faculty exclusion of an apothecary as a manual trade, conventionally in 1529 when he entered Montpellier. It is not a recovered autograph diploma, and it is not a later encyclopedia caption as a second act. It is one event. ## 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. Sharing a field with them is not a reason to drop a documented act, and it is not a reason to assign later consequences done in the name after death. 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. Named person as heading of the dated public instrument. Later editors, museums, printers, or offices share publication. Complex where later carriers are the surviving public file. ## Evidence and sources Britannica — Nostradamus and Jewish Virtual Library — Nostradamus independently describe this instrument. Official or archival record: Britannica — Nostradamus (https://www.britannica.com/biography/Nostradamus; Encyclopaedia Britannica). ## Significance 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. ## What is established and what is not Established as a sourced public record of this instrument at the date assigned here. What would change the picture: a contradictory original with a different date or name, or a measured series that can be argued, with lag and alternatives, as a consequence of this instrument rather than of later institutions. The date is the date of this instrument, not a licence to back-date every later harm or benefit. Established here: a sourced, dated public instrument with a named contribution by Nostradamus. They are not a public rating. The driver `labour-market-tightness` is attached because the mechanism named in Significance follows from this instrument, not because a standing list of welfare headings needed another tick. Nostradamus did not file a later UNESCO form, a later Loeb colophon, or a later museum label as a personal act. A portrait or conventional bust is not this mechanism. Allegation, reconstruction, and established occurrence stay distinct. Do not convert a missing degree into a unique wage series. Do not invent the text of Register S 2 in this date field. Keep the carrier date of later English distinct from the received historical year stored in the date field. Do not read a later English edition as a recovered autograph of Nostradamus. ## People - Nostradamus: https://factrail.ai/people/nostradamus ## Drivers - Labour-Market Tightness: https://factrail.ai/drivers/labour-market-tightness ## Sources - https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/nostradamus - https://www.britannica.com/biography/Nostradamus ## Methodology https://factrail.ai/methodology Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/nos-montpellier-expulsion-1529