Nostradamus
MICHEL, a French astrologer; born in St. Remy, Provence, France, Dec. 14, 1503. After graduating in medicine at Montpelier, in 1529, he acquired the reputation of a skillful physician by successfully arresting the progress of a pestilential disease. But he aimed at the character of an astrologer and adept in the occult sciences, volume of obscure a and published metrical rhapsodies in 1555, under the title of "Prophetical Centuries." Nostradamus was appointed first physician to Charles IX., who came himself in person to Salon, where Nostradamus then resided, for the purpose of visiting him. He died in Salon, France, July 2, 1566.