Jean de Nostredame (1522–1576/7) was a Provençal historian and writer. He was the younger brother of

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. He was baptised at

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on 19 February 1522. He followed the footsteps of his father, Jaume de Nostredame, as a notary public and served as a procurator of the Cour de Parlement of Provence in

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. Nostredame's major work is ''Les vies des plus célèbres et anciens Poètes provensaux, qui ont floury du temps des comtes de Provence'' (Lyon: Alexandre Marsilij, 1575). It presents itself as a history of the

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. Today it is regarded as largely fantasy, though nuggets of historical truth remain. Nostredame lists three sources for his accounts, but none of these survive. In the eighteenth century

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was influenced by Nostredame, but in the twentieth, Camille Chabaneau and Joseph Anglade showed definitively that most of Nostredame cannot be corroborated.

References

*Boase, Roger (1977). ''The Origin and Meaning of Courtly Love: A Critical Study of European Scholarship''. Manchester: Manchester University Press. .
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at Espace Nostradamus *« ''L’Hystoire de la guerre d’Arles''. L’épisode de Tersin dans la ''Chronique de Provence'' de Jean de Nostredame (ca. 1575) », ''De la pensée de l’histoire au jeu littéraire. Études médiévales en l’honneur de Dominique Boutet'', dir. S. Douchet, M.-P. Halary, P. Moran, S. Lefèvre, J.-R. Valette, Paris, Honoré Champion, 2019, p. 870-881. {{DEFAULTSORT:Nostredame, Jean de 1522 births 1570s deaths People from Saint-Rémy-de-Provence 16th-century French historians French male non-fiction writers French people of Jewish descent