The historical Flamel lived in Paris in the 14th and 15th centuries, and his life is one of the best documented in the history of medieval alchemy. He ran two shops as a scribe and married Perenelle in 1368. She brought the wealth of two previous husbands to the marriage. The French Catholic couple owned several properties and contributed financially to churches, sometimes by commissioning sculptures. Later in life, they were noted for their wealth and philanthropy. Flamel lived into his 70s, and in 1410 designed his own tombstone, which was carved with the images of Christ, St. Peter, and St.
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Nicolas Flamel | Life
Sorry. I cannot find the answer based on the context. He is a real person Real person He is a real French scribe and manuscript-seller.
harry potter and the chamber of secrets full book summary
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The plot follows Harry's second year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, during which a series of messages on the walls of the school's corridors warn that the "Chamber of Secrets" has been opened and that the "heir of Slytherin" would kill all pupils who do not come from all-magical families. These threats are found after attacks that leave residents of the school petrified. Throughout the year, Harry and his friends Ron and Hermione investigate the attacks.
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2 June 1999
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what is the theme of the book?
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sacrifice, love, friendship, loyalty, prejudice, and racism.
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does it have any special connection with any other book in this series?
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Yes, "Chamber of Secrets" has many links with the sixth book of the series, "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince".
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The novel explores the past of the boy wizard's nemesis, Lord Voldemort, and his preparations for the final battle against Voldemort alongside his headmaster and mentor Albus Dumbledore
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what does the headmaster look like?
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Albus Dumbledore is tall and thin, with silver hair and beard so long that they can be tucked into his belt. He has a very long and crooked nose that looks as if it has been broken at least twice. He is also said to have long and skillful fingers. His eyes are described as being a brilliant, soul-piercing shade of blue, and usually twinkled with kindness and mischief.
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Dumbledore is an expert at nonverbal spells and is famous as an alchemist who has worked with Nicolas Flamel, the only known maker of the Philosopher's Stone, and is credited with discovering the twelve uses of dragon's blood.
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does he have any remarkable possessions?
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Pensieve, Deluminator, Elder Wand and Phoenix.
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what is the real name of the boy wizard's nemesis mentioned above?
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Tom Marvolo Riddle
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what are his magical strengths?
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He is known as one of the greatest Legilimens in the world and a highly accomplished Occlumens; he can read minds and shield his own from penetration.
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is he related to any other family apart from the riddle one?
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Yes, Gaunts
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how is he related to them?
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They are the last known descendants of Salazar Slytherin.
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in which city did the alchemist who worked with the headmaster live?
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Paris
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Flamel has been portrayed in popular fiction as a legendary figure who holds the key to immortality or the philosopher's stone. For example, in Victor Hugo's 1831 novel "Notre Dame de Paris", the tragic main character Claude Frollo is a young priest and alchemist who spends much of his time studying the carvings in Les Innocents, trying to fathom Flamel's secrets. Into the twentieth and twenty-first century, works such as "Harry Potter" (1997 to the ), "Fullmetal Alchemist" (2001–2010), "The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel" (2007–2012), and "As Above, So Below" (2014) have propagated the legend of Nicolas Flamel.
Nicolas Flamel | In popular culture
Nicolas Le Floch was born in Guérande, Brittany, the illegitimate son of the Marquis de Ranreuil, raised by Canon Le Floch. When the cycle of novels begins in 1761, he is working with the (real-life) Antoine de Sartine, Lieutenant General of Police of Paris, and promoted to "Commissaire" of le Châtelet. Assisted by Inspector Pierre Bourdeau and others he goes on to solve crimes as well as pursue a complicated love life. He and many of his friends are gourmets and descriptions of food feature prominently in the novels.
Jean-François Parot | Fictional character
Paul. The tombstone is preserved at the Musée de Cluny in Paris. Records show that Flamel died in 1418. He was buried in Paris at the end of the nave of the former Church of Saint-Jacques-de-la-Boucherie. His will, dated 22 November 1416, indicates that he was generous but that he did not have the extraordinary wealth of later alchemical legend. There is no indication that the real Flamel of history was involved in alchemy, pharmacy or medicine.
Nicolas Flamel | Life
Nicolas Flamel (; 1330 – 22 March 1418) was a French scribe and manuscript-seller. After his death, Flamel developed a reputation as an alchemist believed to have discovered the philosopher's stone and to have thereby achieved immortality. These legendary accounts first appeared in the 17th century. According to texts ascribed to Flamel almost 200 years after his death, he had learned alchemical secrets from a Jewish "converso" on the road to Santiago de Compostela. He has since appeared as a legendary alchemist in various fictional works.
Nicolas Flamel | Introduction
The historical Flamel lived in Paris in the 14th and 15th centuries, and his life is one of the best documented in the history of medieval alchemy. He ran two shops as a scribe and married Perenelle in 1368. She brought the wealth of two previous husbands to the marriage. The French Catholic couple owned several properties and contributed financially to churches, sometimes by commissioning sculptures. Later in life, they were noted for their wealth and philanthropy. Flamel lived into his 70s, and in 1410 designed his own tombstone, which was carved with the images of Christ, St. Peter, and St.
Nicolas Flamel | Life
Also, Flamel is said to have studied some texts in Hebrew. The validity of this story was first questioned in 1761 by Etienne Villain. He claimed that the source of the Flamel legend was P. Arnauld de la Chevalerie, publisher of "Exposition of the Hieroglyphical Figures", who wrote the book under the pseudonym Eiranaeus Orandus. Other writers have defended the legendary account of Flamel's life, which has been embellished by stories of sightings in the 17th and 18th centuries and expanded in fictitious works ever since.
Nicolas Flamel | Posthumous reputation as an alchemist
After the battle, Nick Fleming confesses to Josh and Sophie that his real name is Nicholas Flamel, that he is the French alchemist from history, that he is also immortal, and that the twins, himself, and Perry (his immortal wife, Perenelle Flamel), are in grave danger. Nicholas tells the twins that he believes them to be mentioned in a prophecy within the Codex, and that the fate of the world as they know it could depend on his success in getting their dormant, latent magical abilities fully awakened. He also tells them that without the Codex, both he and Perry will die within a month, as their immortality, prolonged youth, and longevity depend on a recipe for a special elixir found only within its pages.
The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel | Plot overview
Parot mixes fictional characters and historical figures.
Nicolas Le Floch | Biography
Nicholas Flamel – The title character, an alchemyst. Along with his wife, Perenelle, he has lived for nearly 700 years searching for Josh and Sophie Newman, the Gold and Silver twins of legend, who can save the Shadowrealm of Earth from the mad Dr. John Dee and the Dark Elders who seek to destroy it. Flamel is a legend who built his fortune through alchemy, which he uses to amazing effect to combat the horrors Dee sends after the twins and himself. Despite good intentions, however, he is not without flaws,like being selfish and not learning from his mistakes and seeks glory for training Josh and Sophie.
The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel | Main characters
Nicolas Le Floch is a fictional character, the hero of a series of police detective novels written by Jean-François Parot that take place principally in Paris in the 18th century.
Nicolas Le Floch | Introduction
Historical research has not identified any biographical details of a real Nicolas Chauvin, leading to the claim that he may have been a wholly fictional figure. Researcher Gérard Puymège concluded that Nicolas Chauvin did not exist, believing him to be a legend, which crystallized under the Restoration and July Monarchy, from the pen of songwriters, vaudeville and historians. He argues that the figure of Chauvin continues the long tradition of the mythological farmer-soldier or "miles gloriosus" ("boastful soldier") from ancient Roman theater, or the "alazon" of ancient Greek comedy. Chauvin was originally popularized by Cogniard brothers' "La Cocarde Tricolore" (1831), where instead of a Napoleonic veteran he was a young naive soldier learning blindly aggressive patriotism during the Algerian campaign of 1830.
Nicolas Chauvin | Historicity
The "Alchemyst" refers to the historical character of Nicholas Flamel, a French scrivener and manuscript seller. Flamel developed a posthumous reputation for being an alchemist and for his search for the philosopher's stone and immortality.
The Alchemyst: The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel | Title character
Legendary accounts of Flamel's life are based on 17th-century works, primarily "Livre des figures hiéroglyphiques". The essence of his reputation are claims that he succeeded at the two goals of alchemy: that he made the philosopher's stone, which turns base metals into gold, and that he and his wife, Perenelle, achieved immortality through the "Elixir of Life". An alchemical book, published in Paris in 1612 as "Livre des figures hiéroglyphiques" and in London in 1624 as "Exposition of the Hieroglyphical Figures" was attributed to Flamel. It is a collection of designs purportedly commissioned by Flamel for a tympanum at the Cimetière des Innocents in Paris, long disappeared at the time the work was published.
Nicolas Flamel | Posthumous reputation as an alchemist
He moved to Paris, where he died in 1975 from a vascular incident. Its texts are traversed by the questions of God's absence, of the physical decline. Capable as well of humor or gravity, lyricism or scatology, he was a friend of Surrealist artists and members of the Oulipo.
Jaime Montestrela | Fictional Biography
Nicolas Flamel, a wealthy member of the Parisian bourgeoisie, commissioned the house after the death of his wife Pernelle in 1397, to accommodate the homeless. It was completed in 1407, as is inscribed on a frieze above the ground floor, and it is the best known and sole surviving of Flamel's houses, yet he actually never lived there. The house is probably the oldest in Paris. The house's facade became a on . The building is currently used as a private home and a restaurant, the .
House of Nicolas Flamel | History
The house of Nicolas Flamel (; formerly in ) is a house located at 51 rue de Montmorency in the 3rd arrondissement of Paris.
House of Nicolas Flamel | Introduction
Perenelle's reputation as an alchemist stems from a book written in 1612, allegedly authored by her husband. However, Nicolas' reputation as an author and immortal alchemical adept is an invention of the 17th century. Perenelle figures prominently in the introduction of this "Booke of Hieroglyphicall Figures", where the character of Nicolas outlines his quest for the philosopher's stone. In this story, Perenelle witnesses alchemical projections and aids in chrysopoeia.
Perenelle Flamel | Reputation as an alchemist
Nicolas-Julien Forgeot (July 1758, Paris – 4 April 1798) was an 18th-century French librettist, man of letters and playwright.
Nicolas-Julien Forgeot | Introduction
He lives in Africa and in France where he graduates from the École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts and from the University of la Sorbonne, specialized in cinéma. He works and lives in Paris .
Nicolas Pol | Biography
Nicolas grows up in a small town in Auvergne, France, the eldest son of a draper. His family is respectably middle-class, and he is educated. Initially, Nicolas meets Lestat when they are both children and are participating in an outing to "The Witches Place", a location where witches were burned at the stake in previous years. Lestat makes an impression on Nicolas when he begins to scream and cry during the outing. The two meet again as young men, after Lestat defeats a pack of wolves plaguing the village. Nicolas, acting as a spokesperson for the town, presents him with a red velvet cloak and boots lined with the wolves' pelts.
Nicolas de Lenfent | Character history
Meanwhile, Scathach and Joan of Arc try to get to Alcatraz to help Perenelle but are trapped in a shadow−realm by Machiavelli, who had deliberately set the trap to snare them. They do not know how to return to their time and must try to survive while they wait for Flamel and the others to find and rescue them.
The Sorceress: The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel | Plot summary
Nicolas Le Floch is Commissaire of the Châtelet in 18th century Paris. Working for the Lieutenant General of Police Antoine de Sartine, and assisted by Inspector Pierre Bourdeau and others, he solves crimes at all levels of Parisian society — including the royal court — while pursuing a complicated love life.
Nicolas Le Floch (TV series) | Plot
The works of Nicolas Flamel are central to several missions found in the video game "".
Nicolas Flamel | In popular culture
"Nicolas Le Floch", the adventures of Jean-François Parot’s hero are the subject of a television series broadcast on the French channel France 2. Nicolas Le Floch is played by Jérôme Robart. For historical authenticity, episodes have been filmed in Paris, Le Mans, Île-de-France and the Dordogne. The episodes 5, 6, 7, 8 are original stories written by Hugues Pagan.
Nicolas Le Floch | Episodes
Nicolas is intrigued by Lestat, and requests to speak to him privately so that Lestat can tell him how he achieved the impossible. Lestat is not interested until he learns from his mother that Nicolas, like him, is a rebel. He has returned to the village because he is in disgrace: he was sent to Paris to study law at the Sorbonne, but instead fell in love with the violin, abandoned his studies and sold his textbooks to take lessons from Mozart. Although he has returned to the Auvergne, Nicolas has not given up his dream and continues to play his violin at home, prompting his father to threaten to break his hands.
Nicolas de Lenfent | Character history
The character of Paolo Roberto is an actual person. He is a former boxer and television chef who has also dabbled in politics. He played himself in the 2009 film adaptation of the book. In the first part of the book, Salander is exploring "Dimensions in Mathematics" apparently written by L. C. Parnault and published by Harvard University Press in 1999. On February 9, 2009, Harvard University Press announced on their website that this book and the author are purely fictitious. The mysterious Karl Axel Bodin, in whose house Salander finds Zalachenko and Niedermann, is a historical name. Bodin was born in Karlstad and later moved to Sundsvall.
The Girl Who Played with Fire | Cultural notes
Jarnović's life is fancifully described in a novel, "Jarnović" by G. Desnoisterres (pub. le Brisoys, Paris 1844), and in a collection "Scènes de la vie d'artiste" by P. Smith ("Une leçon de Jarnović" - pub. Paris, 1844).
Ivan Mane Jarnović | Fictional depictions of his life
Relatively small for his position, Pareja first played football in his local neighbourhood. While at Espanyol, he earned the nickname of "Torero" (bullfighter) because of his middle name "Martín". Friends with Daniel Jarque, Pareja donned a T-shirt in remembrance of him during the 2014 Europa League celebrations. Having grown up supporting Real Madrid, he also held an Italian passport.
Nicolás Pareja | Personal life
Sophie and Josh Newman – 15-year-old twins – are in Paris with the alchemyst, Nicholas Flamel, and his friend, Scathach. They now face Niccolò Machiavelli and his colleague, but also rival, John Dee, who both work for the Dark Elders. Machiavelli is plotting to capture the twins and Flamel with the missing pages of the Codex – or Book of Abraham the Mage – before Dee can arrive in France from San Francisco. The twins seek out a friend and student to Nicholas, Comte de Saint-Germain, who teaches Sophie to use the elemental magic of Fire. Saint-Germain's wife, Joan of Arc, helps Sophie to learn to control her aura and to sort out the Witch of Endor's memories from her own.
The Magician: The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel | Plot summary
Perenelle Flamel (October 13th 1320-died 1397) was the wife of the famous 14th-century scribe Nicolas Flamel. She was a generous benefactress who invested her wealth in churches and hostels and commissioned religious sculptures. Due to legends which first appeared in the 17th century, she has since developed a reputation as a successful alchemist. Like her husband, Perenelle has had a street in Paris, France named after her, rue Pernelle.
Perenelle Flamel | Introduction
The Alchemyst The Magician The Sorceress
The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel | Awards and nominations
Sophie and Josh Newman are 15-year-old twins who are working at their summer jobs in The Coffee Cup in San Francisco (Sophie works at The Coffee Cup, Josh works at the bookstore on the other side of the street) when a mysterious man, John Dee, comes into the bookstore for a book, the "Codex" – or "Book of Abraham the Mage". Josh witnesses both Nick and Perry using magic. He discovers that Nick is not an ordinary bookseller, but is the medieval and the legendary alchemist, Nicholas Flamel, being kept alive by making the elixir of life (a secret from the "Codex") for him and his wife, Perenelle.
The Alchemyst: The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel | Plot summary
Nicolas Le Floch was raised in Guérande, Brittany, by Canon Le Floch. He studied with the Jesuits at Vannes, then became a legal clerk in Rennes. When the series of novels begins, in 1761, he is sent to Paris with a letter of recommendation from his godfather, the Marquis de Ranreuil, to Monsieur de Sartine, head of secret affairs for Louis XV, who has just been named the Lieutenant General of Police in Paris. Nicolas puts himself at de Sartine’s service and solves various criminal cases, aided by his second in command, Inspector Pierre Bourdeau. The novels follow his social advancement and his romantic liaisons in the last decades before the French Revolution.
Nicolas Le Floch | Biography
Nicolas Lenglet Du Fresnoy (5 October 1674 – 16 January 1755) was a French scholar, historian, geographer, philosopher and bibliographer of alchemy.
Nicolas Lenglet Du Fresnoy | Introduction
Denis Molinier was a French alchemist and member of the French Templars, tasked with finding Nicolas Flamel's laboratory. Arno Dorian collaborated to find the lab before Molinier, and stole one of the mechanisms which opened Flamel's lab from Molinier. It is unknown what happened to him afterwards, either slain in the Revolution, killed by his superiors for his failure or survived safely. He is based on the real life Denis Molinier, who lived from 1711–1777.
List of Assassin's Creed characters | Denis Molinier
Adrian Glew also uncovered that both the hunchback and Hugo were living in the same town of Saint Germain-des-Prés in 1833, and in early drafts of "Les Misérables", Hugo named the main character "Jean Trajin" (the same name as the unnamed hunchbacked carver's employee), but later changed it to "Jean Valjean".
Quasimodo | Real-life Quasimodo
Nicolas-François was well educated in languages as a youth, and participated for a time in the Thirty Years' War.
François Blondel | Early life
On 1 July 2012 Michael Scott issued this statement incontrovertibly naming the title characters so far.
The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel | Titles' significance
In the publisher's introduction, Flamel's search for the philosopher's stone was described. According to that introduction, Flamel had made it his life's work to understand the text of a mysterious 21-page book he had purchased. The introduction claims that, around 1378, he traveled to Spain for assistance with translation. On the way back, he reported that he met a sage, who identified Flamel's book as being a copy of the original "Book of Abramelin the Mage". With this knowledge, over the next few years, Flamel and his wife allegedly decoded enough of the book to successfully replicate its recipe for the philosopher's stone, producing first silver in 1382 and then gold.
Nicolas Flamel | Posthumous reputation as an alchemist
Orczy's depiction is loosely based on Bernard-François, marquis de Chauvelin, a notable political figure in revolutionary France. Although there are some similarities between the real and fictional Chauvelins, Orczy's depiction of Chauvelin's career, personality and history is highly distorted. The historical Chauvelin was in fact a notable military officer who served with Rochambeau in the American Revolution, and as assistant ambassador to England in the time period depicted. The real Chauvelin was never a member or an agent of the Committee of Public Safety, and survived Thermidor.
Citizen Chauvelin | Inspiration
Abraham was born in Kecskemét and moved to Paris in 1938. He studied philosophy, being influenced by Husserl. He was analysed by Béla Grunberger.
Nicolas Abraham | Life
Nicolas de Péchantré, or Péchantrés (1638, in Toulouse – December 1708, in Paris) was a 17th-century French playwright and poet.
Nicolas de Péchantré | Introduction
Vernhes was raised in Paris, France, before moving to the United States at a young age: "I grew up in Paris and moved to the states when I was 12. I ended up in New York at 20 to finish college, thinking I might go back to France afterwards and knew I could not go back before living here. I never left."
Nicolas Vernhes | Biography
In "The Fractal Prince", the Aun are strange entities of Sirr who hold god-like powers over the wildcode and demanded true stories from those who seek boons from them. As Cassar Gomelez recalls, the Aun were four: The Chimney Princess, The Green Soldier, The Lightkraken and The Flower Prince. They use to live as ghosts and shadows in the minds of humans, painfully copied from one host to another, and using promises of immortality to ensure that they would be remembered. But when immortality became more real, they were in danger of dying out, until someone came to set them free: the Prince of Stories.
List of characters in the Jean le Flambeur series | The Aun
Rivière was born in Paris, France in 1963. In 1985, Rivière obtained a law degree ("Licence en droit") at the University of Paris. He attended Sciences Po Paris in 1987. In 1992, he finished his studies in the École nationale d'administration with the "promotion Condorcet".
Nicolas de Rivière | Early life
Nicolas Cammaille-Saint-Aubin (25 March 1770, Paris – 26 August 1832, Paris) was a French playwright français.
Nicolas Cammaille-Saint-Aubin | Introduction
This character first appears in the novel "Le Père Goriot", then in "Illusions perdues", "Splendeurs et misères des courtisanes" (as the main character), "La Cousine Bette", "Le Contrat de mariage", and finally as the main character in the 1840 theatre play "Vautrin". Not only Vidocq as a person but also his methods and disguises inspired Balzac in his work. In Victor Hugo's "Les Misérables" (1862), both main characters, the reformed criminal Jean Valjean and Police Inspector Javert, were modeled after Vidocq, as was the policeman Monsieur Jackal in "The Mohicans of Paris" (1854–1855) by Alexandre Dumas. He also was the basis for "Rodolphe de Gerolstein", who secured justice in the serial newspaper novel "The Mysteries of Paris" of Eugène Sue in the weekly newspaper "Journal des débats"; and he was the inspiration of Émile Gaboriau for "Monsieur Lecoq", one of the first scientific and methodical investigators who played the lead role in many adventures, who in turn was a major influence for the creation of Sherlock Holmes.
Eugène François Vidocq | Literature
Born 23 July 1981 in France, his father was a furniture designer and his mother, a translator of contemporary Greek poets, Personnaz began his career mainly in the theatre. He trained at the conservatory of the twentieth arrondissement of Paris.
Raphaël Personnaz | Personal life
Les enquêtes de Nicolas Le Floch, commissaire au Châtelet ("Listed here are the first French editions (Éd. J.-C. Lattès, Paris) and the first English editions (Gallic Books, London)" 1. "L'Énigme des Blancs-Manteaux", 2000, . -- "The Châtelet Apprentice", 2007, . 2. "L'Homme au ventre de plomb", 2000, . -- "The Man with the Lead Stomach", 2008, .
Nicolas Le Floch | Novels
Born in France, Borodine is of Russian descent through his great-grandfather. His nickname is "Le Kosovar" (The Kosovar), due to his beard.
Nicolas Borodine | Personal life
Pagès created a fictitious history for Botul, as follows: Botul was supposedly born on August 15, 1896, in the French village of Lairière in the south-central Aude department. Affiliating himself with the oral tradition in philosophy, he left no official writings; instead, what is known of his thought comes from transcribed speeches and fragments of correspondence. He is said to have been a friend of the writer Marcel Proust and to have been engaged for a time to the politician and former spy Marthe Richard. Other famous people placed in his orbit include the writers Simone de Beauvoir, Lou Andreas-Salomé, Marie Bonaparte, Jean Cocteau, Jean Giraudoux, Stefan Zweig, and Andre Malraux, and the Mexican revolutionaries Pancho Villa and Emiliano Zapata.
Jean-Baptiste Botul | Fictional biography
He was born in Rue du Mouton, Paris, France, on 25 October 1827 the son of a doctor. He decided with his friend, the great historian Ernest Renan, not to attend a where the vast majority of intellectuals were being educated. After doing well at school in history and philosophy, he became a scientist. He was an atheist but was very influenced by his wife, who was a Calvinist (his wife came from Louis Breguet's family).
Marcellin Berthelot | Personal life
He commissioned two death certificates to be published in "Le Soir". Through them, he claimed that Nikolai Dolgorouki, his supposed father, had used a pseudonym of Nicholas di Fonzo to escape the October Revolution and lived under the name. In actuality, the Bolsheviks executed the real Nikolai Dolgorouki after the Revolution.
Alexis Brimeyer | Noble Pretender
His last active service was in the French invasion of Spain in 1823, in which he commanded a corps and was for a time governor of Madrid. He died as Governor of the Parisian veterans institution Les Invalides.
Nicolas Oudinot | Later life
The house of Nicolas Flamel, at No. 52, which was built in 1407 by Nicolas Flamel himself still stands, the oldest stone house in Paris, at 51 rue de Montmorency; the ground floor, always a tavern, currently houses the Auberge Nicolas Flamel. Nicolas Flamel, a scrivener and manuscript-seller who developed a reputation as an alchemist, claimed that he made the Philosopher's Stone which turns lead into gold, and that he and his wife Pernelle achieved immortality. Engraved images were discovered during recent works on this house. On the facade of the building you can still read this inscription: "Nous homes et femes laboureurs demourans ou porche de ceste maison qui fut faite en l'an de grâce mil quatre cens et sept somes tenus chascun en droit soy dire tous les jours une paternostre et un ave maria en priant Dieu que sa grâce face pardon aus povres pescheurs trespasses Amen".
Rue de Montmorency | House of Nicolas Flamel
Nicolas Fallet (10 September 1746, Langres – 22 December 1801, Paris) was an 18th-century French playwright and journalist.
Nicolas Fallet | Introduction
Players are guided through the game, which is a set of four challenges, by video scenes featuring Michael Scott. The first task, the Alchemyst's challenge, required players to assemble a moving jigsaw of the series' logo against a countdown clock. The second task, the Magician's challenge, required players to turn over two books from a series of books and find matching symbols; when a matching pair was found both books burst into flames and disappeared. The task was complete when all the books had been matched. The third task, the Sorceress' challenge, was a colour sequencing game where players chose coloured flasks and would have to repeat the sequence that they were shown in.
The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel | Online games
Reale's father, Alain, was born in Algeria to an Italian Pied-Noir family and played amateur football.
Enzo Reale | Personal life
Jean François Lyotard was born on August 10, 1924 in Vincennes, France to Jean-Pierre Lyotard, a sales representative, and Madeleine Cavalli. He went to primary school at the Paris Lycée Buffon and Louis-le-Grand. As a child, Lyotard had many aspirations: to be an artist, a historian, a Dominican friar, and a writer. He later gave up the dream of becoming a writer when he finished writing an unsuccessful fictional novel at the age of 15. Ultimately, Lyotard describes the realization that he would not become any of these occupations as "fate" in his intellectual biography called "Peregrinations", published in 1988.
Jean-François Lyotard | Early life, educational background, and family
He was directed to the Arts High School by a biology teacher in the public schools, who had noticed his exceptional sketches in the margins of his science assignments and encouraged him to transfer schools. Upon graduation Reale enrolled in the Pratt Institute, Brooklyn. Reale served in the United States Navy for the entirety of World War II, returning to complete his degree. Upon graduation from Pratt he became a successful commercial artist in Manhattan, married Maria Padula, his wife of 35 years, and settled in Hillside, New Jersey, with summers in Belmar, New Jersey. They had three children who survive them: Nancy Reale Gifford-Humphreys, Aldo Reale, and Barbara Reale, and seven grandchildren.
Nicholas Reale | Introduction
Production was set to begin in February 2013 in Australia and New Zealand. Michael Scott was scheduled to write the screenplay, saying he would like it to be true to the books.
The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel | Film adaptation
His political engagements against nuclear power, and what he called the "mad-system of reality", and the "world of the machine", were not only published in magazines, but also largely discussed in television shows of the time. His 1979 novel, "Die Fälschung", was posthumously filmed as "Circle of Deceit" (1981); directed by Volker Schloendorff, it starred Bruno Ganz, Hanna Schygulla, and Jerzy Skolimowski. Together with Peter Handke, and Michael Krüger, he was a jury member of the European literary Petrarca-Preis, from when the award was founded in 1975, and onto his death.
Nicolas Born | Life and works
After studying in Nancy, he remained there and for eleven years worked as a teacher in prisons. Contact with his students inspired short stories, novels, and then screenplays. He has said that the experience made him give up his simple opinions about people, about guilt, about the necessity to judge others. "It's clear to me now that it would have been impossible for me to write a novel like "Brodeck's Report" or "Grey Souls", to make a movie like "I've Loved You So Long", if I hadn't been in jail."
Philippe Claudel | Life
Perenelle's posthumous reputation as an alchemist has led to her portrayal in fantasy fiction alongside her husband.
Perenelle Flamel | Perenelle in fiction
After two and half years, he was sent to a cavalry regiment in Algeria. He was promoted to lieutenant colonel and decorated with the Légion d’honneur, France’s highest military award, in 1903 on returning to France.
Duke de Richleau | Fictional character biography
One of Flamel's houses still stands in Paris, at 51 rue de Montmorency. It is the oldest stone house in the city. There is an old inscription on the wall, which states, "We, plowmen and women living at the porch of this house, built in 1407, are requested to say every day an 'Our Father' and an 'Ave Maria' praying God that His grace forgive poor and dead sinners." As of 2008, the ground floor housed a restaurant. A Paris street near the Louvre Museum, the "rue Nicolas Flamel", has been named after him; it intersects with the "rue Pernelle", named after his wife.
Nicolas Flamel | House in Paris
She decides to side with the Flamels to save Earth, but seeks out her brother eventually.
The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel | Main characters
The spelling of her name varies and is sometimes given as Perrenelle, Petronelle or Pernelle. Though the historical Perenelle did exist, there is no historical record indicating that she or her husband were the successful alchemists of later legend.
Perenelle Flamel | Life
Achille Le Tonnelier de Breteuil was born on 29 March 1781 in Paris. He was educated at the Collège du Plessis. He graduated from the École Polytechnique.
Achille Le Tonnelier de Breteuil | Early life
The poet Nicolas Joseph Florent Gilbert was born on December 15, 1750 in Fontenoy-le-Château. Julie-Victoire Daubié (26 March 1824 in Bains-les-Bains – 26 August 1874 in Fontenoy-le-Château). She was the first woman to have graduated from a French university when she obtained a bachelor's degree in Lyon in 1861. Rico Daniels who is "Le Salvager", a TV programme made by Discovery Real Time, lives here and his TV show is filmed here.
Fontenoy-le-Château | Personalities
One such disclaimer is shown at the end of the industrial/political thriller "The Constant Gardener", signed by the author of the original book, John le Carré: "Nobody in this story, and no outfit or corporation, thank God, is based upon an actual person or outfit in the real world. But I can tell you this; as my journey through the pharmaceutical jungle progressed, I came to realize that, by comparison with the reality, my story was as tame as a holiday postcard." The 1969 film "Z", which is based on the military dictatorship ruling Greece at that time, has this notice: "Any resemblance to actual events, to persons living or dead, is not the result of chance.
All persons fictitious disclaimer | Later uses
Fernán Caballero (24 December 1796, Morges, Vaud – 7 April 1877) was the pseudonym adopted from the name of a village in the province of Ciudad Real by the Spanish novelist Cecilia Francisca Josefa Böhl de Faber y Ruiz de Larrea.
Fernán Caballero | Introduction
A contemporary fable about an invisible man who is given the chance to become a real human being. "P" is an imaginary character in the mind of seven-year-old Lisa. He lives behind the wallpaper in her bedroom. One day the house is demolished and he emerges from the rubble. With no language or identity he sets out into the human world, ending up at a refugee centre. This is the start of the account of "P's" dramatic progress through decline on his way to become truly human.
Truly Human | Plot
Fabrice Colin (born 6 July 1972, in Paris) is a French author of fantasy, science fiction, and magic realism. His 2003 novel "Dreamericana" won the Grand Prix de l'Imaginaire. Colin and his family lived in Boumerdès, Algeria from 1976 to 1978.
Fabrice Colin | Introduction
The idea for the series as a whole began in May 1997. Initially, the series had Dr. Dee in the leading role, and was going to be called "The Secrets of John Dee", a historical character who Scott knew well, having featured him in three of his other titles: "Image", "Reflection", and "The Merchant Prince". He wanted to bring Dr. Dee into the 21st Century and introduce him to a young audience that may not have heard of the historical doctor before, but he decided that Dr. Dee was too sinister and had dubious motivation. Inspiration struck one night in 2000, when Scott took a wrong turn whilst wandering around Paris and happened upon Nicholas Flamel's house in the Rue du Montmorency.
The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel | Development
He was born at Bourges during the first quarter of the seventeenth century; He began his studies at Sens, and continued them in Paris, where he was instructor in the Mazarin College. There he came under the influence of Richard Simon, the Orientalist and Biblical scholar. He died in 1706 at Paris.
Nicolas Barat | Life
A descendant of the infamous traitor Denzil, Duke of Alsene, his mother Sylvaine Valiarde married into the Alsene family, only to ultimately reject her husband and flee with her infant son, Nicholas, to Vienne, the capital. They live in poverty until she dies, and then Nicholas moves out on the streets as the leader of a gang, until he gets caught. A natural philosopher and widower in need of an intelligent heir, Edouard Villier, takes him out of prison and raises him. Nicholas ends up at Lodun, studying to become a doctor, until Edouard is arrested, tried, and eventually hung for necromancy, despite the fact that he wasn't even a sorcerer.
Characters from Ile-Rien | Nicholas Valiarde
The characters from the French edition include (with names from Anthea Bell's English translation in square brackets): Other characters include Nicolas's parents, as well as teachers and administrators in the school. The teacher is hard-working and loves the children, although they usually exasperate her. The superintendent, Mr. Dubon (Mr Goodman), is known as "le Bouillon" ("Old Spuds"). The two main characters of another comic series by Goscinny, "Iznogoud", begin to take shape in the episode when Nicolas is in summer camp. He and the other children are forced to take a nap, so the conselor tells them a story about ""a caliph who was a very good man but who had a very evil vizier..."", then tells how the caliph dresses as a common man to find out what people think of him, and the evil vizier takes his place.
Le Petit Nicolas | Characters
He returned to Beaune after the three years, living his life of a rich eccentric man (he lived in an old gothic tower which had all walls painted black and silver, played violin by open window all night, and slept in a coffin ). In 1848, he unsuccessfully tried to become a republican politician. He died aged 74, forgotten by both critics and readers.
Xavier Forneret | Life
In April 1870, he was candidate to the Paris Commune
Ulric de Fonvielle | Biography
Pierre Pevel was born in 1968. He was a scriptwriter and author of role-playing games (RPG), before he began writing. He has written many fantasy novels under the pseudonym "Pierre Jacq", often signing his books under his real name. He is known for his trilogy, the "Ombres de Wieldstadt", published en 2001, which in 2002 won him a Grand Prix de l'Imaginaire. Pierre Pevel lives in Nancy, France.
Pierre Pevel | Biography
Antoine-François Riccoboni (1707 – 15 May 1772) was an Italian actor of the Comédie-Italienne in Paris, whose stage name was Lélio "fils".
Antoine-François Riccoboni | Introduction
There are few confirmed details about Perenelle's place of birth and early life. Perenelle married Nicolas in 1368. She had two previous husbands and brought their fortune to the marriage. The couple remained childless. She and her husband were devout Roman Catholics. The couple contributed to the church by commissioning several sculptures. Nicolas continued this practice after his wife's death. The couple is depicted on the portal of the Chapel of St. James of the Boucherie praying at the feet of St. John, a sculpture which they financed in 1389. They owned several properties and contributed to the building of poor houses.
Perenelle Flamel | Life
Nicolas Potier de Novion (1618 – 1 September 1693) was a French magistrate of the Ancien Régime. Potier de Novion was born into the Potier de Blancmesnil family, to André I Potier de Novion, president of parliament, and Catherine Cavelier.
Nicolas Potier de Novion | Introduction
Diderot portrayed d'Alembert in "Le rêve de D'Alembert" ("D'Alembert's Dream"), written after the two men had become estranged. It depicts d'Alembert ill in bed, conducting a debate on materialist philosophy in his sleep. "D'Alembert's Principle", a 1996 novel by Andrew Crumey, takes its title from D'Alembert's principle in physics. Its first part describes d'Alembert's life and his infatuation with Julie de Lespinasse.
Jean le Rond d'Alembert | Fictional portrayal
He studied mathematics with Nicolas Malebranche and was a protégé of Guillaume de l'Hôpital. Engineer of the king, he was a royal professor of mathematics at the college of maître Gervais. François Nicole, Pierre Rémond de Montmort, Émilie du Châtelet and Pierre Louis Maupertuis are some of his students. He was named "associé géomètre" at the Royal Academy of Sciences on 15 January 1707. He died in Paris.
Nicolas Guisnée | Life
He was a professor emeritus at the University of Montpellier until his death on 31 March 2020.
Adolphe Nicolas | Biography
Returning to Paris, he successively opened a pastry shop, an advertising agency, then became a director and a sponsor of the Théâtre des Délassements-Comiques. In 1878, he moved to Doudeauville Street, where he used the name of Cuvillier, with the agreement of Mrs. Cuvillier, to protect himself from his creditors. In May 1879, he moved to Ternes, Doisy Street, in an apartment where he now dealt only with physics and chemistry; he then gives himself the title of physician. With him lived two women: Marie Mahoin, his servant, and Eugénie Meyer, his mistress, seamstress in her fifties, who used to mend costumes at the Odéon-Théâtre de l'Europe.
Albert Pel | First disappearance
After an accident, Fabrice, a fan of Johnny Hallyday, falls into a coma. He wakes up in a parallel dimension in which Johnny, real name Jean-Philippe Smet, abandoned his singing career early on and never became a star. He then convinces Jean-Philippe to become the rock star he should have been.
Jean-Philippe (film) | Plot
The All-Defector is a purported glitch in the Dilemma Prison that appears to prisoners as themselves. This gogol always defects, hence the name. In the epilogue of "The Quantum Thief", it is revealed that three gogols escaped from the Dilemma Prison: Jean le Flambeur, Mieli and the All-Defector, which Sasha states to be a creation of the Archons. This fact plays an important role in the events of "The Fractal Prince".
List of characters in the Jean le Flambeur series | All-Defector
He finally arrived in Paris in October 1771, having been away for eleven years, only to find that he had been declared legally dead and been replaced in the Royal Academy of Sciences. His wife had remarried, and all his relatives had "enthusiastically plundered his estate". Due to shipwrecks and wartime attacks on ships, none of the letters he had sent to the Academy or to his relatives had reached their destinations. Lengthy litigation and the intervention of the king were ultimately required before he recovered his seat in the academy and remarried. He then lived for another 21 years.
Guillaume Le Gentil | Biography
The six titles have all been recorded as unabridged audiobooks. "The Alchemyst" was narrated by Denis O'Hare. "The Magician" was narrated by Erik Singer. "The Sorceress", "The Necromancer", "The Warlock" and "The Enchantress" were narrated by Paul Boehmer.
The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel | Audiobooks
They arrive on the banks of the Seine and, with the help of Dee, Josh manages to stall the Disir and escape. He then leaves with Dee and Machiavelli. Sophie, Joan, and Nicholas arrive and defeat the Disir and Nidhogg. The group are talking to Scathach when Dagon erupts out of the river and drags her back in with him. She isn't seen for the rest of the book. On Alcatraz, Perenelle is helped by the ghost of Juan Manuel de Ayala, a Spanish sailor. She explores Alcatraz and finds ancient monsters in cells. She gets attacked by the Morrigan because Dee has authorized her to be killed.
The Magician: The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel | Plot summary
According to one account she had a hectic social life in Paris – "balls, parties and theatre outings, all the glamour of the life of a wealthy young lady". It was after one of these parties that she noticed a group of wretched-looking people huddled in a church doorway and was taken aback by the contrast between her wealthy, privileged life and that of the Paris poor.
Nano Nagle | Education
An artificial pitch in his native Sarcelles was named after Christanval.
Philippe Christanval | Personal life
Pinel was born in Jonquières, the South of France, in the modern department of Tarn. He was the son and nephew of physicians. After receiving a degree from the faculty of medicine in Toulouse, he studied an additional four years at the Faculty of Medicine of Montpellier. He arrived in Paris in 1778. He spent fifteen years earning his living as a writer, translator, and editor because the restrictive regulations of the old regime prevented him from practicing medicine in Paris. The faculty did not recognize a degree from a provincial university like Toulouse. He failed twice in a competition which would have awarded him funds to continue his studies.
Philippe Pinel | Early life
Rétif suffered at one time or another the extremes of poverty. He drew on the episodes of his own life for his books, which, "in spite of their faded sentiment, contain truthful pictures of French society on the eve of the Revolution". He has been described as both a social realist and a sexual fantasist in his writings. The original editions of these, and indeed of all his books, have long been bibliographical curiosities owing to their rarity, the beautiful and curious illustrations which many of them contain, and the quaint typographic system in which most are composed.
Nicolas-Edme Rétif | Biography
Dorimond (sometime spelt Dorimont or Dorimon), real name Nicolas Drouin (1628–1693), was a 17th-century French comedian and playwright, born and died in Paris. In the early 1660s, he published some plays that have influenced (or were influenced by) Molière, which is the main reason why his name is not forgotten.
Dorimond | Introduction
Philippe Nahon (; 24 December 1938 – 19 April 2020) was a French character actor.
Philippe Nahon | Introduction
Balzac sought to present his characters as real people, neither fully good nor fully evil, but completely human. "To arrive at the truth", he wrote in the preface to "Le Lys dans la vallée", "writers use whatever literary device seems capable of giving the greatest intensity of life to their characters". "Balzac's characters", Robb notes, "were as real to him as if he were observing them in the outside world". This reality was noted by playwright Oscar Wilde, who said: "One of the greatest tragedies of my life is the death of ["Splendeurs et misères des courtisanes" protagonist] Lucien de Rubempré...
Honoré de Balzac | Characters