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Contemporary criticism to Nostradamus prophecies
COUILLARD, Antoine.Les contredicts du Seigneur du Pavillon, lez Lorris, en Gastinois, aux faulses & abbusifves propheties de Nostradamus, & autres astrologues. Adiousté quelques oeuvres de Michel Marot, fils de feu Clément Marot, prince des poètes Francois.     Paris, Charles l'Angelier, 1560. Small 8vo. 19th century Jansenist style red morocco, spine ribbed with title lettered in gold, gilt inner dentelles, marbled endpapers, gilt edges (JOLY). Woodcut printer's device on title. (6), 116, (8) lvs. First edition of the rare second refutation of the prophecies of Michel Nostradamus (1503-1566) by Antoine Couillard who called himself 'Seigneur du Pavillon', with at the end the only known poems by Michel Marot, son of the poet Clement Marot (1496-1544), here published for the first time. Couillard was one of Nostradamus' contemporary critics and a fellow astrologer. He published a parody on Nostradamus' Centuries in 1556: 'Les Propheties du seigneur du Pavillon les Lorriz (Paris, A. Le Clerc for Jean Dallier). The French astrologer and physician, Michel Nostradamus was the most widely read clairvoyant of the Renaissance. He started making prophecies about 1547, which he published in 1555 in a book entitled Centuries. This work consisted of rhymed quatrains grouped in hundreds, each set of 100 called a century. Astrology was then at its peak, and an enlarged second edition, dedicated to the French king, appeared in 1558. It is said that he prophesied the French Revolution of 1789 and the Restoration in 1814. In the Contredicts Couillard cites these prophecies, in this case as published by Richard Roussat in his Livre de l'estat et mutation des temps (1550): ''... combien que de nostre temps & à leur dire mesme, ce ne puisse aduenir: car puis qu'ilz nous promectent vne grande & merueilleuse conionction environ les ans de nostre seigneur, mil sept centz octante-neuf... '' (fol. 3v° - 4r°). In his effort of trying to prove the incorrectness of the prophecies he confirms their accuracy (for the modern reader at least). Fine copy of a rare work, with a leaf tipped in with biographical notes in ms. by Jean-François-Eusèbe Castaigne, of the bibliothèque d' Angoulème, and two 19th-century bookplates pasted in.- (Washed, leaf K2 shaved in outer and lower margins).
Caillet 2650; Chomarat 45; Benazra, p. 45.
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