# Macé Bonhomme at Lyon issues Les Prophéties, a first book of rhymed quatrains grouped in centuries Date: 1555 ## The fact Britannica records publication in 1555 of Centuries: rhymed quatrains grouped in hundreds. BnF Gallica independently hosts later printed Prophéties in the public file. It is not a later English ‘complete prophecies,’ and it is not a fulfilled forecast of a later war. It is one event. ## Context Cryptic quatrains are a public fate-office. Later retrofitting of Napoleon, Hitler, or 11 September 2001 is reception, refused as Facts. The 1550 almanacs are a different cheap genre. [Nostradamus](/people/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. The 1555 Lyon book contained a preface to César dated 1 March 1555 and a first instalment of quatrains (later counted as 353). Enlarged 1557/1558 printings and the 1568 omnibus are later carriers, not this act. Gallica’s public images are later copies after the 1568 line; they evidence the work, they are not 4 May 1555 type. 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 Gallica — Les Prophéties, later copy after the 1568 Lyon Rigaud line and Britannica — Nostradamus independently describe this instrument. Official or archival record: Gallica — Les Prophéties, later copy after the 1568 Lyon Rigaud line (https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k8701168j; Bibliothèque nationale de France). ## Significance A printed centuries book is a polarisation path of high confidence on the 1555 publication, none on unique later-event coefficients. ## 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 `political-polarization` 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 split centuries into one Fact per quatrain. Do not store a 1568 omnibus as 1555. 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 - Political Polarization: https://factrail.ai/drivers/political-polarization ## Sources - https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k8701168j - https://www.britannica.com/biography/Nostradamus ## Methodology https://factrail.ai/methodology Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/nos-propheties-1555