Part One. Chapter Eight. On To Paris : * "Nostradamus, the Man Who Saw Through Time", by Lee McCann [1941], p. 194 CHAPTER EIGHT ON TO PARIS THE SUCCESS OF THE BOOK was immediate and enormous--adjectives which seem to keynote the life of Nostradamus. People were fascinated by the cryptic novelty of the verses which became the sensati...
Part One. Chapter Ten. Towards Familiar Country : * "Nostradamus, the Man Who Saw Through Time", by Lee McCann [1941], p. 255 "Last resting place of the older Capetian kings"."> "Last resting place of the older Capetian kings". CHAPTER TEN TOWARDS FAMILIAR COUNTRY NEARLY THREE MONTHS had gone by from the time that Nostradamus had left Sal...
Title Page : * "Nostradamus, the Man Who Saw Through Time", by Lee McCann [1941], p. i p. ii NOSTRADAMUS THE MAN WHO SAW THROUGH TIME BY LEE MCCANN Creative Age Press, Inc. New York [1941] Scanned , November 2006. Proofed and formatted by John Bruno Hare. This text is in the public domain in the United States...
Foreword : * "Nostradamus, the Man Who Saw Through Time", by Lee McCann [1941], p. viii p. xi FOREWORD THE RICH, ACTIVELY FULFILLED LIFE of the French prophet, Michel de Nostradame, is the story of genius not only in its rarest but its most modern form. His ability foreshadowed a hope, now gaining a first...
Part One. Chapter Two. The Education Of A Genius : * "Nostradamus, the Man Who Saw Through Time", by Lee McCann [1941], p. 24 CHAPTER TWO THE EDUCATION OF A GENIUS DOCTOR DE RMY, Michel's maternal grandfather, took upon himself the early education of his elder grandson. Even today such an education as Michel received from him would be considered...
Part Two. Chapter One. The Cycle Of Valois Navarre : * "Nostradamus, the Man Who Saw Through Time", by Lee McCann [1941], p. 291 p. 292 PART TWO p. 293 Ronsard, who celebrated the arrival of Nostradamus at court with verses in his honor. CHAPTER ONE THE CYCLE OF VALOIS-NAVARRE THE SEVEN CHILDREN OF THE KING Presage 40 A succession of fatalities will...
Part One. Chapter Five. The Plague Returns : * "Nostradamus, the Man Who Saw Through Time", by Lee McCann [1941], p. 109 Through this old gate traveled Nostradamus on errands of mercy and friendship. CHAPTER FIVE THE PLAGUE RETURNS NOSTRADAMUS HAS SAID, concerning his psychic gift, that it was inherited. Undoubtedly he had been conscious...
Part One. Chapter Three. Personages And Politics : * "Nostradamus, the Man Who Saw Through Time", by Lee McCann [1941], p. 54 Etching made by a woman of Salon, from the portrait bust by Csar Nostradamus, son of the prophet. CHAPTER THREE PERSONAGES AND POLITICS THE NEW FREEDOM which had lured Doctor de Nostradame from Montpellier's halls w...
Part One. Chapter Seven. Purpose : * "Nostradamus, the Man Who Saw Through Time", by Lee McCann [1941], p. 167 "King Ren, the minstrel-monarch of Provence"."> "King Ren, the minstrel-monarch of Provence". CHAPTER SEVEN PURPOSE TIME WORE ON. The fruit of the prophet's nocturnal visions multiplied enormously as the history of events...
Part One. Chapter One. A Prophet Is Born : * "Nostradamus, the Man Who Saw Through Time", by Lee McCann [1941], p. 1p. 2 PART ONE p. 3 CHAPTER ONE A PROPHET IS BORN IT WAS NEARLY CHRISTMAS, of the year 1503. San Rmy, ancient Provenal town, namesake of the Saint who baptized Clovis on Christmas Day, was astir with preparations...
Part One. Chapter Nine. The Court Of The Valois : * "Nostradamus, the Man Who Saw Through Time", by Lee McCann [1941], p. 224 "Blois, setting of royal splendors and tragic destinies"."> "Blois, setting of royal splendors and tragic destinies". CHAPTER NINE THE COURT OF THE VALOIS THE ARRIVAL OF THE PROPHET in Paris had stimulated afresh...
Part Two. Chapter Two. Claude De Savoie : * "Nostradamus, the Man Who Saw Through Time", by Lee McCann [1941], p. 329 CHAPTER TWO CLAUDE DE SAVOIE MORE MARS THAN NARBONNE CLAUDE DE SAVOIE, Duke de Villars, Marshal-General of France, and the man who was "more like Mars than Narbonne," was the hero of France in the War of the Spanish...
Untitled : Interest in Nostradamus goes through cycles, usually coinciding with periods of uncertainty and conflict. At the beginning of World War II people turned to Nostradamus for clues as to how and when that conflict would be resolved, and to look for indications that somehow he had prophesized it. Some...
Part One. Chapter Four. Garlands Of Fame : * "Nostradamus, the Man Who Saw Through Time", by Lee McCann [1941], p. 81 CHAPTER FOUR GARLANDS OF FAME DOCTOR NOSTRADAMUS--he had long since adopted the Latin style of name as did most scholars--continued to enjoy the variety of scenes and personalities that made his days a panorama of interest...
Part Two. Chapter Three. In The Twentieth Century : * "Nostradamus, the Man Who Saw Through Time", by Lee McCann [1941], p. 337 CHAPTER THREE IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY As THIS LAST CHAPTER IS BEING assembled with the horrid word "deadline"--Oh, anathema to writers!--ringing in the author's ears, one portion of her attention is on the radio, one...
Part One. Chapter Six. A Prophet's Eyry : * "Nostradamus, the Man Who Saw Through Time", by Lee McCann [1941], p. 138 CHAPTER SIX A PROPHET'S EYRY NOSTRADAMUS HAD FOUND, up to this time, that a settled home life was about the most unattainable of his ambitions. Yet each time that he returned from his absence it had been with more acclaim...