Jean de Nostredame

He followed the footsteps of his father, Jaume de Nostredame, as a notary public and served as a procurator of the Cour de Parlement of Provence in Aix. Nostredame's major work is Les vies des plus célèbres et anciens Poètes provensaux, qui ont floury du temps des comtes de Provence (Lyon: Alexandre Marsilij, 1575). It presents itself as a history of the troubadours. Today it is regarded as largely fantasy, though nuggets of historical truth remain. Nostredame lists three sources for his accounts, but none of these survive. In the eighteenth century Giovanni Mario Crescimbeni was influenced by Nostredame, but in the twentieth, Camille Chabaneau and Joseph Anglade showed definitively that most of Nostredame cannot be corroborated.

The authorities additionally record the headings Joan de Nòstra Dama and Joan de Nostra Dama. His recorded language was Middle French. He was the child of Jaume de Nostredame.

Works recorded as notable number 2: La chronique de Provence and Les vies des plus célèbres et anciens poètes provençaux.

Jean de Nostredame is recorded as writer, poet and historian.