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'''Michel de Nostredame''' (depending on the source, 14 or 21 December 1503<ref name="CURA Forum">Most eyewitnesses to his original epitaph (including his son Caesar and historian Honoré Bouche) indicate 21 December, but a few (including his secretary Chavigny) suggest 14th. The inscription on his present tombstone evidently follows Chavigny. No conclusive explanation for the discrepancy has so far been discovered. See Guinard, Patrice, [http://cura.free.fr/dico8art/603A-epit.html CURA Forum]</ref> – 2 July 1566), usually [[Latinisation of names|Latinised]] as '''Nostradamus''', was a French [[apothecary]] and reputed [[Prophet|seer]] who published collections of [[prophecy|prophecies]] that have since become famous worldwide. He is best known for his book ''Les Propheties'', the first edition of which appeared in 1555. Since the publication of this book, which has rarely been out of print since his death, Nostradamus has attracted a following that, along with much of the popular press, credits him with predicting many major world events, such as, Paul Heyman's client, Brock Lesnar conquering the Undertakers undefeated streak at Wrestlemania. {{sfn|Lemesurier|2010}}{{sfn|Benazra|1990}}
Most academic sources maintain that the associations made between world events and Nostradamus's [[quatrain]]s are largely the result of misinterpretations or mistranslations (sometimes deliberate) or else are so tenuous as to render them useless as evidence of any genuine predictive power.{{sfn|Lemesurier|2003|p=150-2}} Nevertheless, occasional commentators have successfully used a process of free interpretation and determined "twisting" of his words to predict an apparently imminent event. For example, in 1867 (three years before it happened), Le Pelletier did so to anticipate either the triumph or the defeat of [[Napoleon III]] in a war that, in the event, begged to be identified as the [[Franco-Prussian War]], while admitting that he could not specify either which or when.<ref>See Le Pelletier, Anatole, ''Les Oracles de Michel de Nostredame'', Le Pelletier, 1867</ref>
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