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! === Final years and death === [[File:Nostradamus epitaph.jpg|thumb|Nostradamus's current tomb in the [[Salon-de-Provence#Collégiale Saint Laurent|Collégiale Saint-Laurent]] in Salon-de-Provence in the south of France, into which his scattered remains were transferred after 1789]] [[File:140609-Salon-Nostradamus.jpg|thumb|Nostradamus statue in Salon-de-Provence]] By 1566, Nostradamus' [[gout]], which had plagued him painfully for many years and made movement very difficult, turned into [[edema]]. In late June he summoned his lawyer to draw up an extensive will bequeathing his property plus 3,444 crowns (around US$300,000 today), minus a few debts, to his wife pending her remarriage, in trust for her sons pending their twenty-fifth birthdays and her daughters pending their marriages. This was followed by a much shorter [[codicil (will)|codicil]].{{sfn|Leroy|1993|pp=102–106}} On the evening of 1 July, he is alleged to have told his secretary Jean de Chavigny, "You will not find me alive at sunrise." The next morning he was reportedly found dead, lying on the floor next to his bed and a bench (Presage 141 [originally 152] ''for November 1567'', as posthumously edited by Chavigny to fit what happened).{{sfn|Lemesurier|2003|p=137}}{{sfn|Chevignard|1999}} He was buried in the local Franciscan chapel in Salon (part of it now incorporated into the restaurant ''La Brocherie'') but re-interred during the [[French Revolution]] in the Collégiale Saint-Laurent, where his tomb remains to this day.{{sfn|Leroy|1993}} 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