Nostradamus Warning: You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you log in or create an account, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.Anti-spam check. Do not fill this in! === Student years === At the age of 14,{{sfn|Lemesurier|2010}} Nostradamus entered the [[University of Avignon]] to study for his [[Baccalauréat|baccalaureate]]. After little more than a year (when he would have studied the regular [[trivium (education)|''trivium'']] of [[grammar]], [[rhetoric]] and [[logic]] rather than the later ''[[quadrivium]]'' of [[geometry]], [[arithmetic]], [[music]], and [[astronomy]]/[[astrology]]), he was forced to leave Avignon when the university closed its doors during an outbreak of the plague. After leaving Avignon, Nostradamus, by his own account, traveled the countryside for eight years from 1521 researching herbal remedies. In 1529, after some years as an [[apothecary]], he entered the [[University of Montpellier]] to study for a doctorate in medicine. He was expelled shortly afterwards by the student ''procurator'', [[Guillaume Rondelet]], when it was discovered that he had been an apothecary, a "manual trade" expressly banned by the university statutes, and had been slandering doctors.{{sfn |Lemesurier |2010 |pp=48–49}} The expulsion document, ''BIU Montpellier, Register S 2 folio 87'', still exists in the faculty library.{{sfn|Lemesurier|2003|p=2}} Some of his publishers and correspondents would later call him "Doctor". After his expulsion, Nostradamus continued working, presumably still as an apothecary, and became famous for creating a "rose pill" that purportedly protected against the plague.<ref name="ref6">Nostradamus, Michel, ''Traite des fardemens et des confitures'', 1555, 1556, 1557</ref> Summary: Please note that all contributions to Christianpedia may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here. You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource (see Christianpedia:Copyrights for details). Do not submit copyrighted work without permission! Cancel Editing help (opens in new window) Discuss this page