World’s most famous author of prophecies – Michel de Nostredame (December 14, 1503 – July 1, 1566) was born in Saint – Remy –de – Provence in the south of France in a big family. His mother – Reynière de Saint-Rémy and his father was grain dealer and notary Jaume de Nostredame.
When he was sixteen, Nostradamus entered the University of Avignon to study for his baccalaureate, but left the University because of the outbreak of the plague. During next eight years he travelled and made researches in herbal remedies. In 1529 he entered the University of Montpellier to continue his studies of medicine. Soon after that he was expelled from the university due to the discovered fact of his manual trade of the herbs which was strictly forbidden by the university authorities.
Nostradamus worked as an apothecary and a heeler, and created a famous “rose pill” which was believed to protect from the plague disease.
In 1531 Nostradamus became a member of Renaissance scholar in Agen, where he married a woman – Henriette d’Encausse. He lived there for some time with his wife and two children, until they died from the unknown disease. After their deaths, he travelled through France and Italy and returned only in 1545.
From 1545, he assisted the famous physician Louis Serre, together they fought against plague outbreak in Marseille, Salon-de-Province, where he settled and married a rich widow – Anne Ponsarde. She bore him six children. In this period of his life he began writing and his first occult work was almanac for 1550, which was met with success. He published it under the Latin name Nostradamus.
Nostradamus wrote at least 6,338 prophecies in his almanacs; he also made eleven annual calendars, all starting on 1 January. Soon the noble and rich persons started asking for horoscopes and “psychic” advice from him.
At that time he then began his project of writing a book of one thousand verses – the largely undated prophecies for which he is most famous today. He used word games and a mixture of many different languages (Greek, Latin, and Italian) in his work.
The verses published in a book titled “The Prophecies” had a great impact on public; common people considered Nostradamus a servant of devil, a fake, or insane, and the elite met his spiritually-inspired prophecies with approval.
Catherine de Medicis was one of the most famous Nostradamus 
followers. She asked him to explain his prophecies and to draw up horoscopes for her children. Catherine made him Counselor and Physician-in-Ordinary to her son, the young King Charles.
Nostradamus suffered from gout for many years and died in 1566. He was buried in the local Franciscan chapel in Salon and re-interred in the time of the French Revolution in the Collegiale Saint –Laurent.
He is most famous for his book Les Propheties, which consists of rhymed quatrains (4-line poems) grouped into sets of 100, called Centuries.