Editing Nostradamus (section)

=== Student years ===
At the age of 14,{{sfn|Lemesurier|2010}} Nostradamus entered the [[University of Avignon]] to study for his [[Baccalauréat|baccalaureate]]. After little more than a year (when he would have studied the regular [[trivium (education)|''trivium'']] of [[grammar]], [[rhetoric]] and [[logic]] rather than the more advanced ''[[quadrivium]]'' of [[geometry]], [[arithmetic]], [[music]], and [[astronomy]]/[[astrology]]), he was forced to leave Avignon when the university closed its doors during an outbreak of the plague. After leaving Avignon, Nostradamus, by his own account, traveled the countryside for eight years from 1521 researching herbal remedies. In 1529, after some years as an [[apothecary]], he entered the [[University of Montpellier]] to study for a doctorate in medicine. He was expelled shortly afterwards by the student ''procurator'', [[Guillaume Rondelet]], when it was discovered that he had been an apothecary, a "manual trade" expressly banned by the university statutes, and had been slandering doctors.{{sfn |Lemesurier |2010 |pp=48–49}} The expulsion document, ''BIU Montpellier, Register S 2 folio 87'', still exists in the faculty library.{{sfn|Lemesurier|2003|p=2}} Some of his publishers and correspondents would later call him "Doctor". After his expulsion, Nostradamus continued working, presumably still as an apothecary, and became famous for creating a "rose pill" that purportedly protected against the plague.<ref name="ref6">Nostradamus, Michel, ''Traite des fardemens et des confitures'', 1555, 1556, 1557</ref>