His fame in these years is evidenced by the fact that even Queen Catherine de Medici is interested in the Foreteller. In 1555, Nostradamus really receives a call to the royal court, where he immediately goes.
He had a fear that his head would be cut off, but did not come true. On the contrary, he receives a monetary reward (modest, in fact) from the queen and king.
In 1557, an expanded edition of his "Prophecies" was published, and in the same year another of his works appeared: "A paraphrase of Galen, his admonitions to Menadot in the study of fine arts and medicine."
With the advent of fame comes the time of danger and criticism, so in subsequent years Nostradamus clearly did not feel at ease. As for criticism – the times were still those! I had to fight off a large number of caring people. And, with regards to the dangers, there are facts that Nostradamus spent some time under house arrest.
At present, there are only indirect facts that the third part of the "Prophecies" was published in 1558: only posthumous editions have come down to us. The earliest are from 1568.
In parallel with the craft of writing, Dr. Nostradamus continues to invariably help people. In 1559 he went to Bayonne, where he fought the plague.
At the end of the same year, he meets with the Duchess of Savoy, and in 1560 he travels to Rome as a royal courier.
In 1561, riots begin in the Salon, and Nostradamus leaves for Avignon. In the same year, already in Nice, he again visits the Duchess of Savoy and draws up the horoscope of her son.
October 17, 1564 Charles IX and Catherine de Medici, passing through the Salon, meet with Michel Nostradamus. After that, he accompanies them on a journey around the country for a month. Already in Arles, he is appointed Royal Physician and Astrologer. Finally, in 1565 Nostradamus in Aix…
At the end of June 1566, being seriously ill, in the presence of his notary, he draws up a detailed will, and on July 2, early in the morning, Michel Nostradamus dies at his home, in the Salon, from pulmonary edema.
F E N O M E N – N O S T R A D A M U S
For almost five hundred years, his Latinized surname has made the hearts of the inhabitants of the planet worry. For all this time, as soon as they did not interpret his quatrains – quatrains, which form the basis of the "Prophecies". What only the events of history are not tied to them.