** Nicolas Flamel, alchemist ( d. 1417 )

* Nicolas Flamel

Traditions that have been believed to confer greater human longevity also include alchemy, such as that attributed to Nicolas Flamel.

This imaginative portrait of Nicolas Flamel dates from the nineteenth century.

Nicolas Flamel (; Pontoise ?, ca 1330 – Paris, March 22, 1418 ) was a successful French scrivener and manuscript-seller who developed a posthumous reputation as an alchemist due to his reputed work on the philosopher's stone.

Tombstone of Nicolas Flamel, 1418, Paris, Musée de Cluny.

A Paris street near the Louvre Museum, the rue Nicolas Flamel, has been named after him ; it intersects with the rue Perenelle, named after his wife.

Image: House of Nicolas Flamel June 2008. jpg | A closer shot of the Auberge Nicolas Flamel, June, 2008.

Image: Rue_nicolas_flamel. jpg | Rue Nicolas Flamel street sign in Paris

* Nicolas and his wife Perenelle Flamel are important characters mentioned in the Indiana Jones story Indiana Jones and the Philosopher's Stone ( 1995 ) by Max McCoy.

* Nicolas Flamel is significant to the plot of J. K. Rowling's first Harry Potter book, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone ( 1997 ).

* The concept album Grand Materia ( 2005 ) by the Swedish metal band Morgana Lefay is about Nicolas Flamel, his life, and how he made the Philosopher's Stone.

Other features of the neighbourhood include the Musée Picasso, the house of Nicolas Flamel, the Musée Cognacq-Jay, the Musée Carnavalet and the new and very popular Café Charlot.

* Nicolas Flamel, famous alchemist

* In Michael Scott's series, " The Secrets of the Immortal Nicolas Flamel ", a nue is held in a cell on Alcatraz Island.

Saint-Jacques Tower, the Tour Saint-Jacques, is a monument located in the 4th arrondissement of Paris, France, on Rue de Rivoli at Rue Nicolas Flamel.

Nicolas Flamel, a patron of the church, was buried under its floor.

It was here that one of the most successful alchemysts was born, Nicolas Flamel.

( One might reconsider the date of the text, considering that the book Nicolas Flamel brought to Spain was also recognised as being part of the original book of Abraham the Mage, but dates back to 1378, which is nearly 80 years earlier.

Frenchman Nicolas Flamel was also a reputed creator of the Elixir.

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( Would she have been able to had she known that the blanket belonged to a young ballet dancer Nicolas had found his first night in one of Walter's marked bars??

And, as a matter of fact, Nicolas had slept in the park only part of one night, when he discovered that Munich's early mornings even in summer are laden with dew.

Nicolas Malebranche, one of Hume's philosophical opponents

When over 25, 000 of these royalists — led by General Danican — assaulted Paris, Paul François Jean Nicolas, vicomte de Barras was appointed to defend the capital ; outnumbered five to one and disorganized, the Republicans were desperate.

In the early 18th century, Nicolas Malebranche wrote " An organized body contains an infinity of parts that mutually depend upon one another in relation to particular ends, all of which must be actually formed in order to work as a whole ," arguing in favor of preformation, rather than epigenesis, of the individual ; and a similar argument about the origins of the individual was made by other 18th century students of natural history.

A short obituary for the Russian Academy of Sciences was written by Jacob von Staehlin-Storcksburg and a more detailed eulogy was written and delivered at a memorial meeting by Russian mathematician Nicolas Fuss, one of Euler's disciples.

When Nicolas Sarkozy became President in 2007, Juppé was one of the few " chiraquiens " to serve in François Fillon's government.

Lotbinière, who may have won the job of building the fort only because he was related to Governor Vaudreuil, had lost a bid to become Canada's chief engineer to Nicolas Sarrebource de Pontleroy, one of the two surveying engineers, in 1756, all of which may explain the highly negative report.

Together with Claude Nicolas Ledoux he was one of the most influential figures of French neoclassical architecture.

Latrobe was one of the first formally-trained, professional architects in the United States, drawing influences from his travels in Italy, as well as British and French Neoclassical architects such as Claude Nicolas Ledoux.

* Nicolas Léonard Sadi Carnot ( 1796 – 1832 ), mathematician and eldest son of Lazare, one of the pioneers of thermodynamics.

He has been one of the most vocal right-wing opponents of President Nicolas Sarkozy, and on 8 September announced his candidature for President of France in 2012.

John Frampton wrote in his ' Englished ' edition of Nicolas Monardes ' Dos libros, el veno que trata de todas las cosas que traen de nuestras Indias Occidentales, originally published in 1596 ( Monardes 1577 ): ' They doe bring from the Newe Spaine twoo kindes of Rosine ... the one is called Copall.

Pétion was one of those who escaped to Caen and raised the standard of provincial insurrection against the Convention ; and, when the Norman rising failed, he fled with Marguerite-Élie Guadet, François Nicolas Leonard Buzot, Charles Jean Marie Barbaroux, Jean-Baptiste de la Salle and Jean-Baptiste Louvet de Couvrai to the Gironde, where they were sheltered by a wigmaker of Saint Emilion.

Children have also been the stimulus for longer journeys, among tours featured by Cyclo-Camping International has been one by Brigitte and Nicolas Mercat and their three children, five, seven and nine when they left France in July 2002.

Gabriel later answered his earlier essay with one titled Worse Is Better Is Worse under the pseudonym " Nickieben Bourbaki " ( an allusion to Nicolas Bourbaki ).

He was one of the first to adopt the philosophy of René Descartes, though with certain orthodox reservations ; and between 1683 and 1685 he had a long battle with Nicolas Malebranche on the relation of theology to metaphysics.

Though not one of the most well known figures of the French Revolution, Jacques Nicolas Billaud Varenne was an instrumental figure of the period known as the Reign of Terror.

Two obscure agents of the Committee of Public Safety ( one of them named Nicolas Guénot ) were in search of a marquise who had fled, but an unknown stranger was found in the house and arrested on suspicion of being the aristocrat they were searching for.

" He had also a pension from Nicolas Fouquet, and one from the queen.

Its proceedings, including some suppressed in the official records, are preserved in the notes of one of the official court reporters, Gabriel Nicolas de la Reynie.

Nicolas Fouquet's curiosity in the matter was one of the causes of his disgrace, for, when he bribed Louise, the King mistakenly thought that Fouquet was attempting to take her as a lover.

Nicolas Charles Oudinot was the son of Nicolas Oudinot and Marie Anne Adam, the only one of their nine children to live to adulthood.