See also:

• NICOLAS
• NICOLAS, SIR NICHOLAS HARRIS (1799–1848)

NICOLAS See also:

• NICOLAS IFLAMEL (c. 1330-1418)

IFLAMEL (c. 1330-1418)  , reputed See also:

• FRENCH
• FRENCH, DANIEL CHESTER (1850– )
• FRENCH, NICHOLAS (1604-1678)

French alchemist and scrivener to the university of See also:

• PARIS
• PARIS (also called ALEXANDROS)
• PARIS, ALEXIS PAULIN (1800-x881)
• PARIS, BRUNO PAULIN GASTON (1839-1903)
• PARIS, FRANCOIS DE (169o-1727)
• PARIS, LOUIS PHILIPPE ALBERT
• PARIS, TREATIES OF (1814-1815)

Paris, was See also:

• BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born in Paris or See also:

• PONTOISE

Pontoise about 1330, and died in Paris in 1418, bequeathing the bulk of his See also:

• PROPERTY

property to the See also:

• CHURCH
• CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
• CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
• CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
• CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
• CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)

church of See also:

• SAINT (lat. sanctus, " holy ")

Saint-Jacques-la-Boucherie, 1 where he was buried . During his See also:

• LIFE

life he contributed freely to charitable and religious purposes from the considerable See also:

• WEALTH

wealth he amassed either by the practice of his See also:

• CRAFT (a word common to Teutonic languages for strength, or power; cf. Ger. Kraft)

craft, or, as some surmise without definite See also:

• PROOF (in M. Eng. preove, proeve, preve, &°c., from O. Fr . prueve, proeve, &c., mod. preuve, Late. Lat. proba, probate, to prove, to test the goodness of anything, probus, good)

proof, by fortunate See also:

• SPECULATION

speculation or See also:

• MONEY

money lending, or, as See also:

• LEGEND (through the French from the med. Lat. legenda, things to be read, from legere, to read)

legend has it, by See also:

• ALCHEMY

alchemy . According to a document purporting to be written by himself in 1413 (printed in See also:

• WAITE, MORRISON REMICK (1816–1888)

Waite's Lives of the Alchemystical Philosophers, See also:

• LONDON

London, 1888), there See also:

• FELL
• FELL, JOHN (1625-1686)

fell into his hands in 1357, at the cost of two florins, a See also:

• BOOK

book on alchemy by See also:

• ABRAHAM, or ABRAM (Hebrew for " father is high ")

Abraham the See also:

• JEW, THE WANDERING

Jew, which taught in See also:

• PLAIN (O. Fr. plain, from Lat. plenum)

plain words the transmutation of metals . It did not, however, explain the materia prima, but merely figured or depicted it, and for more than 20 years Flamel strove in vain to find out the See also:

• SECRET (Lat. secretum, hidden, concealed)

secret . Then, returning from a See also:

• JOURNEY (through O. Fr. jornee or journee, mod. Fr. journee, from med. Lat. diurnata, Lat. diurnus, of or belonging to dies, day)

journey to See also:

• SPAIN
• SPAIN (Espana)

Spain, he fell in with a See also:

• CHRISTIAN
• CHRISTIAN, WILLIAM (1608-1663)

Christian Jew, named Canches, who gave him the explanation, and after three more years' See also:

• WORK

work he succeeded in preparing the materia prima, thus being enabled in 1382 to transmute See also:

• MERCURY
• MERCURY (MERCU1uus)
• MERCURY (symbol Hg, atomic weight = 2oo)

mercury into both See also:

• SILVER

silver and See also:

• GOLD
• GOLD [symbol Au, atomic weight 195.7(H = 1),197.2(0 =16)]

gold . But this fantastic See also:

• STORY, JOHN (c. 1510-1571)
• STORY, JOSEPH (1779-1845)
• STORY, ROBERT HERBERT (1835-1907)
• STORY, WILLIAM WETMORE (1819—1895)

story was disposed of by the facts, derived from See also:

• PARISH (Gr. irapouda, district, neighbourhood; 7r&poucos, one dwelling near or beside, from crap&, OtKOS, house; Lat. paroecur, Late Lat. parochia; cf. Fr. paroisse)

parish records, set forth in Vilain's Essai See also:

• SUE, EUGENE [JosEPH MARIE] (1804—1857)

sue l'histoire de Saint-Jacques-la-Boucherie, 1758, and his Histoire critique de See also:

• NICOLAS
• NICOLAS, SIR NICHOLAS HARRIS (1799–1848)

Nicolas Flamel et de Pernelle sa femme, recueillie d'actes anciens qui justifient l'origine et la mediocrite de See also:

• LEER

leer See also:

• FORTUNE, ROBERT (1813-188o)

fortune contre See also:

• LES

les imputations See also:

• DES

des alchimistes, 1761 . A book on alchemy in the Paris'Bibliotheque, Le Tresor de philosophie, professing to be written and illuminated by Flamel with his own See also:

• HAND
• HAND (a word common to Teutonic languages; cf. Ger. Hand, Goth. handus)
• HAND, FERDINAND GOTTHELF (1786-185r)

hand, is ui very doubtful authenticity, and other See also:

• TREATISES

treatises bearing his name, such as the Sommaire philosophique de Nicolas Flamel, published in 1561 in a collection of alchemist treatises entitled Trans-formation metallique, are certainly See also:

• SPURIOUS

spurious .