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Nostradamus

Nostradamus

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Physician and almanac-author (1503–1566) whose 1550 almanacs, 1555 Lyon Prophéties, Catherine’s court nativities, and a 1564 Charles IX title reach the public through BnF/Gallica, Wellcome, and Britannica. Documented harms: faculty expulsion, predictive print, children’s horoscopes. Offsets: 1546–47 plague practice, Traité des fardemens.

Vernacular almanac and quatrain prophecy as a public predictive officecourt astrology under Catherine de Médicis as royal counsellingapothecary-physician craft without a verified Montpellier doctorate

Impact

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Editorial assessment (context, not the score)

The page is not a seer who scheduled later wars and not a verified Montpellier doctor. The heaviest documented costs in public English are cheap annual prediction, the 1555 centuries book as a cryptic fate-office, and court horoscopes of royal children. The offsets are 1546–47 plague practice as presence, the Traité as craft print, and a 1564 ordinary-physician title. He did not file 1568. Printers and later commentators did that work. Confidence is high on 1555 and 1564 as received, low on clinical effect and on any unique later-event coefficient. Later Gallica pages remain the dated public record of the book.

Indicators affected

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Accountability & contradictions

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Responsibility

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  • 1 linked fact has no assessed welfare direction yet.
  • Lifetime coverage has not been assessed: the record reflects stored facts only (1529–1564).

Causal path

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  1. PersonNostradamus
  2. FactCharles IX appoints Nostredame physician-in-ordinary during the 1564 royal progress in Provence
  3. DriverHealth system capacity stress
  1. PersonNostradamus
  2. FactCatherine de Médicis summons Nostredame to court to explain almanac threats and to cast horoscopes of her children
  3. DriverPolitical Polarization
  1. PersonNostradamus
  2. FactA printed Traité des fardemens et confitures issues apothecary recipes for cosmetics, preserves, and a plague powder
  3. DriverDigital Learning Access

Timeline

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  1. 1 January 1564 · Health system capacity stress

    Charles IX appoints Nostredame physician-in-ordinary during the 1564 royal progress in Provence

  2. 1 January 1556 · Political Polarization

    Catherine de Médicis summons Nostredame to court to explain almanac threats and to cast horoscopes of her children

  3. 1 June 1555 · Digital Learning Access

    A printed Traité des fardemens et confitures issues apothecary recipes for cosmetics, preserves, and a plague powder

  4. 4 May 1555 · Political Polarization

    Macé Bonhomme at Lyon issues Les Prophéties, a first book of rhymed quatrains grouped in centuries

  5. 1 January 1550 · Political Polarization

    An almanac for 1550 opens a series of annual vernacular prognostications under the name Nostradamus

  6. 1 January 1546 · Health system capacity stress

    Nostredame practises during the 1546–47 plague outbreaks at Aix and Lyon as later lives tell it

Evidence & methodology

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7 of 7 linked facts verified, drawing on 6 distinct sources (1529–1564).

Sources include Encyclopaedia Britannica, Wellcome Collection, Bibliothèque nationale de France, National Geographic.

Sources

  1. 1.Britannica — NostradamusEncyclopaedia Britannica
  2. 2.Britannica — Charles IXEncyclopaedia Britannica
  3. 3.Britannica — Catherine de MédicisEncyclopaedia Britannica
  4. 4.Wellcome Collection — works search, NostradamusWellcome Collection
  5. 5.Gallica — Les Prophéties, later copy after the 1568 Lyon Rigaud lineBibliothèque nationale de France
  6. 6.National Geographic — Who was NostradamusNational Geographic

The score is formula-derived (Factrail formula v1, version 1.0.0), not an editorial verdict. Read the methodology.

By the Factrail desk · Method: how we source and score · Last reviewed · Sources: 6

Expert analysis

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The first fact about Nostradamus in a public catalog is a missing medical degree and a cheap almanac, not a marble seer who scheduled later wars. Britannica at https://www.britannica.com/biography/Nostradamus (opens in a new tab) places birth on 14 December 1503 at Saint-Rémy, Agen practice in the 1530s without a taken degree, plague work at Aix and Lyon in 1546–47, published prophecy from about 1547, Centuries in 1555, a summons to Catherine de Médicis to cast her children’s horoscopes, a 1564 physician-in-ordinary title under Charles IX, and death at Salon on 1/2 July 1566. National Geographic at https://www.nationalgeographic.com/history/article/who-was-nostradamus-plague-astrology-predictions (opens in a new tab) independently frames the almanacs of the 1550s as the living reputation-machine. BnF data at https://data.bnf.fr/fr/11917886/nostradamus/ (opens in a new tab) and Gallica at https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k8701168j (opens in a new tab) carry later printed Prophéties after the 1568 Lyon line; those images are evidence of the book, not 4 May 1555 type. Wellcome at https://wellcomecollection.org/search/works?query=Nostradamus (opens in a new tab) holds the medical-craft neighbourhood of the Traité. Catherine at https://www.britannica.com/biography/Catherine-de-Medici (opens in a new tab) and Charles IX at https://www.britannica.com/biography/Charles-IX-king-of-France (opens in a new tab) bound the court title. Faculty expulsion is a labour gate. What the page must not say: that a quatrain is a fulfilled forecast of Napoleon, Hitler, or 11 September 2001; that 1568 is 1555; that rose-powder changed 1546 mortality; that Charles IX created a ministry. Offsets that survive the legend: plague practice as presence, the Traité as vernacular craft, the 1564 ordinary-physician title as a named court medical office of limited reach. Complex contribution is the honest type. Confidence is high on 1555 publication and on the 1564 title in standard lives, medium on the exact Montpellier folio and on chart contents, low on clinical effect. Related people are Catherine, Charles IX, César de Nostredame as dedicatee-son, Julius Caesar Scaliger in the Agen years, Anne Ponsarde, Macé Bonhomme. Almanac is not centuries. Horoscopes are not the plague year. Later omnibus commentaries are reception. Jewish-origin family conversion is background in Jewish Virtual Library at https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/nostradamus (opens in a new tab), not a Fact he filed as an act. The Albi 1555 scan at https://archive.org/details/les-propheties-albi-1555 (opens in a new tab) is a later public carrier of a rare first-edition line; it does not make him the scanner. Keep Salon death as biography, not as a welfare instrument: a natural death is not a royal killing. The useful question is which dated 1550–1564 instruments still move polarisation, personal data, labour gates, and limited health office under his name without laundering later headlines into quatrains. On source-distance: Gallica’s public Prophéties at https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k8701168j (opens in a new tab) follow the 1568 Rigaud line; they prove a printed book, they do not prove 4 May 1555 type metal. Wellcome at https://wellcomecollection.org/search/works?query=Nostradamus (opens in a new tab) is a medical-library neighbourhood for the Traité, not a 1546 ward book. Britannica at https://www.britannica.com/biography/Nostradamus (opens in a new tab) and National Geographic at https://www.nationalgeographic.com/history/article/who-was-nostradamus-plague-astrology-predictions (opens in a new tab) disagree in emphasis and still converge on almanac, centuries book, court, and 1564 title. Where they do not print a folio, this catalog does not invent one. A weak graph is the honest result: seven lifetime Facts, a handful of related people, own article only, empty news. Padding to thirty Facts would require attributing later commentators to the living apothecary. Later Loeb, UNESCO, and encyclopedia pages are evidence, not additional acts.

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