How did a wealthy Parisian property investor and benefactor become one of the most famous alchemists in history? A new exhibition at the Musée de Cluny in Paris explores this extraordinary transformation of Nicolas Flamel
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The Testament of the Parisian Nicolas Flamel (1330-1418)
Nicolas Flamel, was a very wealthy Parisian slumlord making his living from renting out rooms and apartments in houses build on the right side of the Seine in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. Upon his death, he donated his entire wealth to churches and hospitals to atone for his sins.
The House Nicolas Flamel Built for the Living and the Dead in 1407
Built in Paris in 1407, the surviving house of the Parisian Bourgeois, Nicolas Flamel, offers an unusual glimpse into medieval housing, charitable foundations and the religious obligations of working people.
The Devotional Landscape of Nicolas Flamel and Pernelle in Medieval Paris
A house with two street entrances, writing stalls against a church wall and a sculpted portal reveal how the Parisian couple, Nicolas Flamel and Pernelle, connected domestic life, work and religious patronage in the 14th century
Reading Medieval Paris: Fifteen Books on the City
Medieval Paris was not simply a royal capital, a university town or a city of magnificent churches. It was also a crowded and constantly changing urban landscape
Stepping into the Heart of Medieval Paris
A Journey Through Time on Île de la Cité invites you to step into the heart of Medieval Paris
Music in the Time of Nicolas Flamel
What did Paris sound like in the lifetime of Nicolas Flamel (c. 1330–1418)? As part of its exhibition Nicolas Flamel, alchimiste de papier, the Musée de Cluny invites visitors to explore the musical world of this wealthy Parisian bourgeois
Inside the Houses of the Canons of Notre-Dame in Fifteenth-Century Paris
A remarkable collection of post-mortem inventories reveals how the wealthy canons of Notre-Dame lived, worked and entertained in late medieval Paris.
What Was an Escripvain in the Middle Ages? Scribes, Authors and the Business of Writing
What did it mean to be an escripvain (or escrivain) in medieval France? Was such a person a professional copyist, a clerk, a secretary, a notary or an author? And how did the meaning of the term change as manuscript production developed into an increasingly specialised commercial enterprise during the later Middle Ages?