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Bronze medal probably from the Paris Mint, but no hallmark, curiosity, perhaps an essay.
From the collection of an important collaborator of the Mint in the 1970s.
Cast iron from the 60s.
Some minor traces of friction.
Engraver / Artist : Henri DROPSY (1885-1969).
Dimension: 135mm.
Weight : 668 g.
Metal : bronze.
Dimension: 135mm.
Weight : 668 g.
Metal : bronze.
Hallmark on the edge (mark on the edge) : none .
Quick and neat delivery.
THE easel is not has sell .
THE easel is not has sell .
The stand is not for sale.
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Michel de Nostredame, known as Nostradamus, born December 14, 1503 in Saint-Rémy-de-Provence and died July 2, 1566 in Salon-de-Provence, is a French apothecary1 and author. Practicing astrology2; he is best known for his work entitled Les Prophéties in which some believe they read proven predictions. According to several sources3, he was also a doctor.
Biography
Childhood
Birthplace of Nostradamus in Saint-Rémy-de-Provence.
Michel de Nostredame, son of Jaumenote 1 de Nostredame (1470-1536) and Reynière (or Renée) de Saint-Rémy, was born on December 14, 15034.5 around noon6.
Jaume was the eldest of six (some say eighteen) children of the couple Pierre de Nostredame7 and Blanche de Sainte-Marie. His wife, Renée de Saint-Rémy, was the daughter of René de Saint-Rémy and Béatrice Torrelli, and the granddaughter of Jean de Saint-Rémy (1428-1504)note 2, doctor and treasurer of the royal court of Saint-Rémy[clarification needed] between 1481 and 1504, probable date of his death8. Jean de Saint-Rémy comfortably provided for his granddaughter and helped her husband, initially a grain merchant and copyist, to become a notary, the latter occasionally being a pawnbroker9. Michel de Nostredame was born in the house of his great-grandfather, rue des Barri, in Saint-Rémy-de-Provence.
The name Nostredame comes from his Jewish grandfather, Guy de Gassonet (son of Arnauton de Velorges), who chose the name Pierre de Nostredame upon his conversion to Catholicism, probably around 145510. According to the Avignon archives, and according to the Carpentras archives which often speak of Jews from other regions, it is suggested that the name Nostredame was imposed11 by the cardinal-archbishop of Arles, Pierre de Foix. Nostredame's grandfather, Pierre de Nostredame, was so convinced of his faith that he divorced his then-wife (Benastruge Gassonet) who did not want to leave Judaism. The dissolution of the marriage was pronounced under the Pauline privilege in Orange on June 14, 1463, which finally allowed him to marry Blanche, daughter of Pierre de Sainte-Marie, doctor, Hebrew scholar and Hellenist12.
Years of study
Portrait of Nostradamus
by Dr. Niel.
Image from Epinal representing Nostradamus.
Nostredame left for Avignon at a very young age to obtain his bachelor's degree in arts at the University of Avignon. He then stayed with his aunt Marguerite, married to a certain Pierre Joannis, a dyer whom he probably helped in his spare time: the preparation of coloring products is not far from alchemy13. He is said to be gifted with an almost divine memory, a cheerful, pleasant character, perhaps a little mocking “laetus, facetus est que mordax14. » His comrades would have called him "the young astrologer", because "he pointed out and explained to them the celestial phenomena", mysterious to many at the time: shooting stars, meteors, stars, mists, etc. He must also learn grammar, rhetoric and philosophy. But he had to leave the university after only one year, and therefore without a diploma, because of the arrival of the plague (end of 1520)15.
Having practiced as an apothecary (non-qualified profession), he enrolled on October 3, 1529 at the faculty of Montpellier to try to earn his doctorate in medicine. He became known thanks to the remedies he developed as an apothecary. But he was soon expelled for having exercised this “manual” profession prohibited by the faculty statutes.
His registration in 1529 and his removal are the only traces of his time in Montpellier, and we do not know of any document attesting that he was a doctor at another university. But, without being affirmative, most twentieth-century scholars think that it is not impossible that Nostredame's expulsion was temporary, that he re-registered on October 23, 1529 and that he still became graduated from the University of Montpellier in 153316 (as some very late commentators like Guynaud and Astruc also claimed, adding additional, not very credible details), although he lacked the first diploma necessary to access the doctorate, because the names of several of the known graduates of this university are also absent from its registers17 - unless they were not real graduates either (the phenomenon of the "false doctor" being very well known in the 'era).
Marriages and professions
Around 1533, he settled in Agen18, where he practiced home care medicine. There he became friends with Julius Caesar Scaliger. This Italian, based in Toulouse, scholar of the Renaissance, is “an incomparable character, if not to a Plutarch” according to Nostradamus; he writes about everything. Impertinent, he attacks everyone, is interested in botany and makes salves and ointments. But the young “imposter” worried the religious authorities with his ideas, which were a little too progressive for the time.
The precise duration of his stay in Agen is
Biography
Childhood
Birthplace of Nostradamus in Saint-Rémy-de-Provence.
Michel de Nostredame, son of Jaumenote 1 de Nostredame (1470-1536) and Reynière (or Renée) de Saint-Rémy, was born on December 14, 15034.5 around noon6.
Jaume was the eldest of six (some say eighteen) children of the couple Pierre de Nostredame7 and Blanche de Sainte-Marie. His wife, Renée de Saint-Rémy, was the daughter of René de Saint-Rémy and Béatrice Torrelli, and the granddaughter of Jean de Saint-Rémy (1428-1504)note 2, doctor and treasurer of the royal court of Saint-Rémy[clarification needed] between 1481 and 1504, probable date of his death8. Jean de Saint-Rémy comfortably provided for his granddaughter and helped her husband, initially a grain merchant and copyist, to become a notary, the latter occasionally being a pawnbroker9. Michel de Nostredame was born in the house of his great-grandfather, rue des Barri, in Saint-Rémy-de-Provence.
The name Nostredame comes from his Jewish grandfather, Guy de Gassonet (son of Arnauton de Velorges), who chose the name Pierre de Nostredame upon his conversion to Catholicism, probably around 145510. According to the Avignon archives, and according to the Carpentras archives which often speak of Jews from other regions, it is suggested that the name Nostredame was imposed11 by the cardinal-archbishop of Arles, Pierre de Foix. Nostredame's grandfather, Pierre de Nostredame, was so convinced of his faith that he divorced his then-wife (Benastruge Gassonet) who did not want to leave Judaism. The dissolution of the marriage was pronounced under the Pauline privilege in Orange on June 14, 1463, which finally allowed him to marry Blanche, daughter of Pierre de Sainte-Marie, doctor, Hebrew scholar and Hellenist12.
Years of study
Portrait of Nostradamus
by Dr. Niel.
Image from Epinal representing Nostradamus.
Nostredame left for Avignon at a very young age to obtain his bachelor's degree in arts at the University of Avignon. He then stayed with his aunt Marguerite, married to a certain Pierre Joannis, a dyer whom he probably helped in his spare time: the preparation of coloring products is not far from alchemy13. He is said to be gifted with an almost divine memory, a cheerful, pleasant character, perhaps a little mocking “laetus, facetus est que mordax14. » His comrades would have called him "the young astrologer", because "he pointed out and explained to them the celestial phenomena", mysterious to many at the time: shooting stars, meteors, stars, mists, etc. He must also learn grammar, rhetoric and philosophy. But he had to leave the university after only one year, and therefore without a diploma, because of the arrival of the plague (end of 1520)15.
Having practiced as an apothecary (non-qualified profession), he enrolled on October 3, 1529 at the faculty of Montpellier to try to earn his doctorate in medicine. He became known thanks to the remedies he developed as an apothecary. But he was soon expelled for having exercised this “manual” profession prohibited by the faculty statutes.
His registration in 1529 and his removal are the only traces of his time in Montpellier, and we do not know of any document attesting that he was a doctor at another university. But, without being affirmative, most twentieth-century scholars think that it is not impossible that Nostredame's expulsion was temporary, that he re-registered on October 23, 1529 and that he still became graduated from the University of Montpellier in 153316 (as some very late commentators like Guynaud and Astruc also claimed, adding additional, not very credible details), although he lacked the first diploma necessary to access the doctorate, because the names of several of the known graduates of this university are also absent from its registers17 - unless they were not real graduates either (the phenomenon of the "false doctor" being very well known in the 'era).
Marriages and professions
Around 1533, he settled in Agen18, where he practiced home care medicine. There he became friends with Julius Caesar Scaliger. This Italian, based in Toulouse, scholar of the Renaissance, is “an incomparable character, if not to a Plutarch” according to Nostradamus; he writes about everything. Impertinent, he attacks everyone, is interested in botany and makes salves and ointments. But the young “imposter” worried the religious authorities with his ideas, which were a little too progressive for the time.
The precise duration of his stay in Agen is
Some saw this as proof that he knew the circumstances of her death. It is said that he was found dead, near his bed and a wooden bench, on July 2, 1566, returning from a trip where he had represented his city to the king (therefore an embassy) and had received there the title of ordinary physician to the king. What is attested is that he represented Salon-de-Crau in an embassy[ref. desired] in Arles with the king in 1564, which he was subsequently richly endowed by the king. He was found dead on the morning of July 2, 1566, and not in November, which however leaves doubt as to the prophecy, since it was only published two years after his death, and in apparently retro-edited form. He died in Salon-de-Provence of so-called cardiopulmonary edema. We know his will and the exact fate of his remains: his tomb was built in the Cordeliers church then desecrated in 1793 by sans-culottes, his bones being pillaged and scattered. A Marseillais, according to local tradition, seized the skull and drank from it46. Finally, Mayor David had the relics that he had been able to save transferred to the Saint-Laurent collegiate church47, in Salon-de-Provence.
Tomb of Nostradamus
The Prophecies
“True and remarkable portrait of the famous Michel Nostradamus, famous astrologer” (by Jean, publisher in Paris, before 1837).
The Prophecies. Edition of 1568.
As said previously, the first edition of the Prophecies was published on May 4, 1555 by the Lyon printer Macé (Matthieu) Bonhomme48. Several editions are considered pirated or backdated, but it is generally accepted that the (enlarged) edition which bears the date September 1557 was actually published during Nostradamus' lifetime. The existence of a 1558 edition is less certain, as no copy has survived. The book is divided into Centuries, a centuria being, theoretically, a set of one hundred quatrains. The seventh century always remained incomplete. The first edition, full of scholarly references, contains 353 prophetic quatrains, the last, published two years after the death of Nostradamus, 942 – or 58 quatrains less than the 1000 he had announced (“perfecting the milliad”). The Prophecies gave rise to the publication of nearly ten thousand works. Among the most famous exegetes, we can mention Anatole Le Pelletier, Vlaicu Ionescu, Jean-Charles de Fontbrune and his father, Serge Hutin and Erika Cheetham, who believe in the prescience of Nostradamus, and Eugene F. Parker, Edgar Leoni, Louis Schlosser and especially Pierre Brind'Amour, who don't believe it. Others like Robert Benazra, Michel Chomarat and Daniel Ruzo, have endeavored to identify the editions of his works and the works which concern him.
A first cause of divergence between interpreters is that due to the composition methods of 16th century printers, the editions and even the particular copies of these editions all or almost all differ, and do not guarantee any perfect conformity with the original manuscript text (lost since then). To add to the difficulty, certain quatrains (like 10.72, which indicates a specific date) are the subject of disagreements between exegetes, particularly as to the meaning of the words.
The second cause of divergence between interpreters lies in Nostradamus himself. Its obscure style and vocabulary, a mixture of Middle French, Latin, Greek (very little; see for example quatrain IV, 32) and Provençal, give exegetes great freedom of interpretation. Nostradamus, perhaps to add mystery to his quatrains, used all kinds of literary figures. But the main reason for this nebulous style would be, if we are to believe it, the desire to ensure the longevity of the work49. Nostradamus, however, assures
Tomb of Nostradamus
The Prophecies
“True and remarkable portrait of the famous Michel Nostradamus, famous astrologer” (by Jean, publisher in Paris, before 1837).
The Prophecies. Edition of 1568.
As said previously, the first edition of the Prophecies was published on May 4, 1555 by the Lyon printer Macé (Matthieu) Bonhomme48. Several editions are considered pirated or backdated, but it is generally accepted that the (enlarged) edition which bears the date September 1557 was actually published during Nostradamus' lifetime. The existence of a 1558 edition is less certain, as no copy has survived. The book is divided into Centuries, a centuria being, theoretically, a set of one hundred quatrains. The seventh century always remained incomplete. The first edition, full of scholarly references, contains 353 prophetic quatrains, the last, published two years after the death of Nostradamus, 942 – or 58 quatrains less than the 1000 he had announced (“perfecting the milliad”). The Prophecies gave rise to the publication of nearly ten thousand works. Among the most famous exegetes, we can mention Anatole Le Pelletier, Vlaicu Ionescu, Jean-Charles de Fontbrune and his father, Serge Hutin and Erika Cheetham, who believe in the prescience of Nostradamus, and Eugene F. Parker, Edgar Leoni, Louis Schlosser and especially Pierre Brind'Amour, who don't believe it. Others like Robert Benazra, Michel Chomarat and Daniel Ruzo, have endeavored to identify the editions of his works and the works which concern him.
A first cause of divergence between interpreters is that due to the composition methods of 16th century printers, the editions and even the particular copies of these editions all or almost all differ, and do not guarantee any perfect conformity with the original manuscript text (lost since then). To add to the difficulty, certain quatrains (like 10.72, which indicates a specific date) are the subject of disagreements between exegetes, particularly as to the meaning of the words.
The second cause of divergence between interpreters lies in Nostradamus himself. Its obscure style and vocabulary, a mixture of Middle French, Latin, Greek (very little; see for example quatrain IV, 32) and Provençal, give exegetes great freedom of interpretation. Nostradamus, perhaps to add mystery to his quatrains, used all kinds of literary figures. But the main reason for this nebulous style would be, if we are to believe it, the desire to ensure the longevity of the work49. Nostradamus, however, assures