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  Nicholas Flamel - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
This allegedly is a portrait of Nicholas Flamel.
Flamel is listed as the 8th "Grand Master of the Priory of Sion" (1398-1418) as part of a 1950s hoax where his name was planted in the French National Library in the "Dossiers Secrets".
Flamel is mentioned on several occasions (chapters 20 and 44) in Victor Hugo's The Hunchback of Notre Dame.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Nicholas_Flamel   (907 words)

  
 Perenelle Flamel - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Perenelle Flamel was the wife of the famous 15th century alchemist Nicholas Flamel.
Perenelle was a widow and married Nicholas Flamel at the age of 40.
Nicholas Flamel was an alchemist whose central quest was the search for the philosopher's stone, and the elixir of life that would supposedly achieve immortality.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Perenelle_Flamel   (200 words)

  
 Nicholas Flamel
The French alchemist, Nicholas Flamel, was born at Pontoise at the beginning of the fourteenth century.
The Flamels spent their new found wealth on the churches, charities and hospitals of the district, but continued to live modestly themselves.
Nicholas made extensive preparations for both their funerals in minute detail, including the heavy slab of stone that was to cover his coffin and the arrangement of monthly services to take place at his own grave.
www.angelfire.com /in4/alchemy2084/flamel.html   (580 words)

  
 Nicholas Flamel - The Book of Abraham the Jew
Whether Nicholas Flamel was born at Pontoise or somewhere else, a question that historians have argued and investigated with extreme attention, seems to me to be entirely without importance.
Nicholas Flamel married Pernelle, a good-looking, intelligent widow, slightly older than himself and the possessor of a little property.
Nicholas Flamel had bequeathed his papers and library to a nephew named Perrier, who was interested in alchemy and of whom he was very fond.
www.deeptrancenow.com /exc_flammel.htm   (5756 words)

  
 Flamel Technologies, Inc
Nicholas Flamel never thought it extraordinary that Abraham should have known Latin, and was convinced that the characters on his book had been traced by the hands of that great patriarch himself.
Nicholas rendered the last honors to his body; and with a sorrowful heart, and not one sous in his pocket, proceeded home to his wife Petronelle.
Nicholas thought so too, especially when he began to find that his elixir could not keep off death, and that the grim foe was making rapid advances upon him.
www.flamel-technologies.fr /flamelBio.shtml   (1993 words)

  
 Nicholas Flamel - Crystalinks
This book fell into the hands of precisely the man who was destined to receive it; and he, with the help of the text and the hieroglyphic diagrams that taught the transmutation of metals into gold, accomplished the transmutation of his soul, which is a far rarer and more wonderful operation.
Whether Nicolas Flamel was born at Pontoise or somewhere else, a question that historians have argued and investigated with extreme attention, seems to me to be entirely without importance.
Flamel was no doubt tempted to receive him with disdainful arrogance, as do the booksellers of our day when some poor student offers to sell them part of his library.
www.crystalinks.com /flamel.html   (2411 words)

  
 A detailed biography of Nicolas Flamel with his original drawings and writings.
As he had converted and Flamel did not want to be suspected of bringing a Jew into France, he had him piously buried in the church of Sante-Croix and had masses said in his honor.
Yet he had no temptation to divulge the secret that had been entrusted to him through the book, for he was able to measure the lowest degree of virtue necessary for the possession of it, and he knew that the revelation of the secret to an undeveloped soul only increased the imperfection of that soul.
Hardly was Flamel dead when the report of his alchemical powers and of his concealment somewhere of an enormous quantity of gold spread through Paris and the world.
www.flamelcollege.org /flamel.htm   (5603 words)

  
 Reign O'er Me by cts
Flamel nodded, indicating he was familiar with the particulars as McGonagall continued, “I am… concerned for him and for the enormity of the burden he must carry.” She motioned with her hands, taking in all of Hogwarts.
Flamel smiled patronizingly at him, McGonagall struggled and almost succeeded in keeping a straight face, and they resumed walking toward the gargoyle, leaving Snape to continue on his way.
Flamel entered the office and gently closed the door and stood before the desk where Albus Dumbledore was holding what appeared to be a collection of broken parts.
www.hpfanfic.net /viewstory.php?sid=565   (2548 words)

  
 Extraordinary Popular Delusions And The Madness Of Crowds -- Chapter 32   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Nicholas rendered the last honours to his body; and with a sorrowful heart, and not one sous in his pocket, proceeded home to his wife Petronella.
Nicholas was now about eighty years of age, and still a hale and stout old man. His friends say that, by the simultaneous discovery of the elixir of life, he found means to keep death at a distance for another quarter of a century; and that he died in 1415, at the age of 116.
Upon the strength of the rumour, a believer in all the wondrous tales told of Nicholas Flamel bought the house, and nearly pulled it to pieces in ransacking the walls and wainscotting for hidden gold.
www.litrix.com /madraven/madne032.htm   (2127 words)

  
 The CyberSybils Unroll Scroll Eighteen ~ Quincunx
Flamel made the necessary arrangements and traveled many miles until he reached the city at the foot of the Cantabrian mountains.
Deprived of his sole guide, a dejected and bitter Flamel returned to Paris with naught but what he was beginning to consider a cursed Liber Rosa and an heavy heart, despairing at the loss of the friend and teacher whom might have led him to the manufacture of the holy quinta essentia.
Flamel toiled for twenty-two years, studying the works of Canches' teacher, Villanova, reading whatever books he might find concerning the knowledge of Isis, she who had raised Ra, the Sun, from death.
cybersybils.com /Quin.html   (893 words)

  
 MuggleNet | Name Origins / Nicholas Flamel
One night, Nicholas Flamel had a dream in which an angel came to his bed, held out a book and said, these words, which were to remain in the memory of the hearer: "Look well at this book, Nicholas.
When Nicholas told him that he had with him the book of Abraham the Jew the Maestro's eye's lit up and he explained that Abraham the Jew was a venerable master who was a great master and spent his whole life studying the mysteries of the Cabala.
The heat soon died down and rumors that Nicholas Flamel and his wife Pernelle was still alive were forgotten.
www.mugglenet.com /books/flamel.shtml   (779 words)

  
 Thelemapedia: The Encyclopedia of Thelema & Magick | Nicholas Flamel
Nicholas, or Nicolas, Flamel was a FranceFrench alchemist who lived in the fifteenth century.
Nicholas Flamel's story is alluded to in J. Rowling's first Harry Potter book, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (or Sorcerer's Stone,) in which he is an unseen character.
Flamel Technology (http://www.flamel-technologies.fr) French based company named after the alchemist includes a biography (http://www.flamel-technologies.fr/flamelBio.shtml) of his life and major accomplishments.
www.thelemapedia.org /index.php/Nicholas_Flamel   (481 words)

  
 C h e c k m a t e d !
Nicholas?” McGonagall peered with cat-like intensity, unable to quite accept what her eyes were reporting.
Flamel rode the stairs upwards until they reached the headmaster’s office; he moved to the door and knocked.
Flamel entered the office and gently closed the door and stood before the desk where Albus Dumbledore was holding what appeared to a collection of broken parts; Dumbledore muttered, “Reparo,” and the parts assembled into a silvery device that began clicking quietly as he set it upon the desk.
www.checkmated.com /story.php?story=3236   (2565 words)

  
 Victor Hugo and Nicolas Flamel
Whether one believes Flamel was able to turn any material into gold, or discovered the Philosopher's Stone and achieved immortality, are but a few of the flowers.
Hugo referenced Flamel several times in Notre Dame de Paris, which was published in 1831, when Hugo was only 29.
Victor Hugo and Nicolas Flamel are also both alleged to have been Grand Masters of the Prieuré de Sion/Priory of Sion/Priory of Zion.
www.gavroche.org /vhugo/flamel.shtml   (938 words)

  
 Alchemy Rediscovered and Restored: Part I: Historical: Chapter III: The Story of Nicholas Flamel
After the death of my parents, I Nicholas Flamel, got my living by the art of writing, ingrossing and the like, and in the course of time there fell into my hands a gilded book, very old and large, which cost me only two florins.
Nicholas Flamel died eventually in 1415 at the age of one hundred and sixteen years.
I have retailed this account of Flamel's experiences in full as it seems to me to be of no mean interest, despite the fact that certain authorities have doubted its veracity.
www.sacred-texts.com /alc/arr/arr06.htm   (2711 words)

  
 Mackay, Charles, Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds, Chapter 4, file a: Library of ...
Nobody could make any thing either of Nicholas or his pictures; and some even went so far as to say that his invaluable book was not worth a farthing.
Among the works written by Nicholas Flamel on the subject of alchymy is The Philosophic Summary, a poem, reprinted in 1735, as an appendix to the third volume of the Roman de la Rose.
The writer of the article, Flamel, in the Biographie Universelle says, that for a hundred years after the death of Flamel, many of the adepts believed that he was still alive, and that he would live for upwards of six hundred years.
www.econlib.org /library/Mackay/macEx4a.html   (18497 words)

  
 Alchemy   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
[[Nicholas Flamel had these mysterious alchemical symbols carved on his tomb in the Church of the Holy Innocents in Paris.]] Alchemy was kept alive by men such as Nicolas Flamel, who was noteworthy only because he was one of the few alchemists writing in those troubled times.
Flamel lived from 1330 to 1417 and would serve as the archetype for the next phase of alchemy.
His influence was negligible, but like Flamel, he produced writings which were referred to by alchemists of later years.
alchemy.iqnaut.net   (5362 words)

  
 Weekly Professor
At the time of Harry’s involvement with the stone, Flamel was 656 years old, the age he would have been had be truly been living.
In addition to his fame as an alchemist, Nicholas Flamel is listed in the priory documents as one of the Grand Masters of the Priory of Scion, the secret organization that plays such a prominent role in Dan Brown’s best-seller The Da Vinci Code.
Legend grew that Nicholas and Perenelle had achieved immortality, and there were “sightings” of the couple in Paris well into the 18th century.
www.esu.edu /wp/articles/10june2004.html   (312 words)

  
 Discussion: Alchemy   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Nicholas Flamel was 665 years old at the time of book-1.
Flamel would have needed the stone for those first 500 years.
Nicholas Flamel was a real person who according to myth was the only person to make a philosopher's stone, so JKR was just attaching her fictional character Dumbledore to a real person and his myth.
www.hpana.com /forums/topic_view.cfm?tid=62204   (2290 words)

  
 Nicholas Flamel's Own Words
This exposition by Nicholas Flamel was printed in French in 1612.
Whilst therefore, I Nicholas Flammmel, Notary, after the decease of my, parents, got my living in our art of writing, by making inventories, dressing accounts, and summing up the expenses of tutors and pupils, there fell into my hands, for the sum of two florins, a gilded book, very old and large.
It was not of paper or parchment, as other books be, but was only made of delicate rinds (as it seemed unto me) of tender young trees.
gothlupin.tripod.com /flameltestament.html   (1525 words)

  
 Maranatha Puzzle - Nicholas Flamel   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
With his own words Flamel tells of the passing of many years through which he attempted to release the secrets of the book, and how he concluded his efforts with a pilgrimage to find someone worthy of teaching him its hidden art.
It is near the end of his travelling quest that he met a Master who began to relinquish the book of its meaning and mystery.
So that, upon a special day, Nicolas Flamel, the humble shopkeeper, came into the infamous wealth.
www.maranatha-puzzle.com /nicholas-flamel.asp   (423 words)

  
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Main theme was about the Philosopher's stone which turns metal into gold and makes people immortal (cannot die) Nicholas Flamel was the person who discovered it with the help of his college Albus Dumbledore.
Nicholas Flamel took the elixir of life and became immortal and now is 664 years old.
Main theme for this book was that Salazar Slytherin had created a secret chamber which only could be opened by The Heir of Slytherin and so people who look at this heir directly become statues or somewhat like that.
www.expage.com /bokhp12   (379 words)

  
 Circle Angkur: Devotions   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Flamel's trade had brought him familiarity with the writings of the alchemists of his day, and he knew something of transmutation, and knew well the many symbols that alchemists used.
Flamel then entered upon a life long study of Alchemy, and is believed to unlocked the secrets of transmutation, and the Philosophers Stone.
After Flamel's official death, his house was ransacked again and again by those seeking the philosopher's stone.
www.angkur.org /devotions/read/18.html   (3100 words)

  
 HPL: Essays - Time Lines - Mapping the Harry Potter Timeline
If Flamel was born in 1328 at the earliest, and that book was written the year after his 665th birthday, then the book must have been written no earlier than 1994.
The strongest pieces of evidence must therefore be the Deathday cake and the lower bounds (in particular the 'publishing' of QA and Nicholas Flamel's age).
The same connection could be made in other cases: Sir Nicholas' Deathday Cake could have been drawn or the inscription put on a scrap of paper in 1992, QA was written after 1994, and Rowling could easily have thought of 1994 as "some years ago," at that time.
www.hp-lexicon.org /timelines/essays/timeline-mapping-tf.html   (5226 words)

  
 Testament of Flamel
I cannot locate a manuscript of the 'Testament', though it was mentioned in Borel's bibliography of alchemy.
It was probably written in France in the late 18th century, during the revival of interest in Flamel.
They assert that the original of this work was written upon the margin of a vellum Psalm-book, in Nicholas Flamel's own handwriting in favour of his nephew.
www.levity.com /alchemy/testment.html   (2217 words)

  
 WeasleyNetwork.org : Dialogue Swaps
Flamel, who celebrated his six hundred and sixty-fifth birthday last year, enjoys a quiet life in Devon with his wife, Perenelle (six hundred and fifty-eight).
Nicholas Flamel, the noted alchemist who last year celebrated his 665th birthday.
The only big swap here is that in the book, Harry found the Flamel connection which then prompted Hermione to seek out the book where she had read about Flamel -- the final cut of the movie implied Hermione remembered reading about Flamel on her own.
www.weasleynetwork.org /extra/swaps_book1.shtml   (2773 words)

  
 Finding the Gold Within: A Modern-Day Alchemist --Interview with Mark Stavish alchemy metal gold plants consciousness ...
It was someone several years ago who was doing the work of Flamel.
A lot of people now are familiar with Nicholas Flamel because of Harry Potter.
Nicholas Flamel was a historical person, and there’s an actual way of alchemy known as the Flamel Path.
www.beliefnet.com /story/154/story_15422_3.html   (710 words)

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