Nostradamus predictions for '23: Great war, financial ruin, more...
Following popular trends, he wrote an almanac
for 1550, for the first time in print Latinising his name to
Nostradamus. He was so encouraged by the almanac's success that he
decided to write one or more annually. ...
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.
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It's always about how the fool and his money soon are parted one from the other.
