Michel De Nostradame, otherwise known as Nostradamus was born December 14, 1503. His family was of Jewish ancestry. His grandfather, Pierre de Nostradame, had settled in Provence because by the mid-1400s, many Jews had come to live there.         Nostradamus' father was Jacques de Nostradame. Jacques worked as a scholary, since most people didn't know how to write he wrote things for them, from love letters to formal documents. Jacques' income provided a good home at the …showed first 75 words of 1017 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1017 total…but blazed when he          was angry. His cheeks were red even at his old age. He spoke little, but thought a great         deal. He slept only four or five hours a night. I can remember his charity to the poor         towards whom he was very generous.         Nostradamus had a great life he had everything he wanted besides that fact that his family was killed by the plague and he was not able too help them.