Secrets d'histoire

Nostradamus, or how to predict your future (17x5)

: 17, 2023

This issue focuses on Nostradamus, the famous 16th-century French apothecary and author. The program looks at his Italian origins, his passion for the occult sciences, his arrival at the French court and his activities as royal physician to Queen Catherine de Médicis. It paints a portrait of a man of many skills, an apothecary, herbalist, medical doctor and cosmetics manufacturer. The program focuses in particular on his relationship with Queen Catherine de Médicis, who called him to the court of the Château de Blois in 1555, and whose bedroom adjoined his own. Finally, the program focuses on his famous almanacs, as well as his relationships with crowned heads who asked him for horoscopes and predictions. This is an update of a program which already dealt with this subject during the second season of the show in 2008, then in a one-hour format and broadcast on Sunday afternoons, entitled Nostradamus : prophète ou imposteur?