Editing Nostradamus (section)

=== Marriage and healing work ===
[[File:Nostradamuss house at Salon-de-Provence.jpg|thumb|upright=0.9|Nostradamus's house at [[Salon-de-Provence]], as reconstructed after the [[1909 Provence earthquake]]]]

In 1531 Nostradamus was invited by [[Julius Caesar Scaliger|Jules-César Scaliger]], a leading [[Polymath|Renaissance scholar]], to come to [[Agen]].{{sfn|Leroy|1993|pp=60–91}} There he married a woman of uncertain name (possibly Henriette d'Encausse), with whom he had two children.{{sfn|Leroy|1993|p=61}} In 1534 his wife and children died, presumably from the plague. After their deaths, he continued to travel, passing through France and possibly Italy.{{sfn|Leroy|1993|pp=62–71}}

On his return in 1545, he assisted the prominent physician [[Louis Serre (physician)|Louis Serre]] in his fight against a major plague outbreak in [[Marseille]], and then tackled further outbreaks of disease on his own in Salon-de-Provence and in the regional capital, [[Aix-en-Provence]]. Finally, in 1547, he settled in [[Salon-de-Provence]] in the house which exists today, where he married a rich widow named Anne Ponsarde, with whom he had six children—three daughters and three sons.{{sfn|Leroy|1993|pp=110–133}}  Between 1556 and 1567 he and his wife acquired a one-thirteenth share in a huge canal project, organised by [[Adam de Craponne]], to create the [[Canal de Craponne]] to irrigate the largely waterless Salon-de-Provence and the nearby Désert de la [[Crau]] from the river [[Durance]].{{sfn|Brind'Amour|1993|pp=130, 132, 369}}