Nicolas Flamel
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Nicolas Flamel (c. 1330 – 22 March 1418) was a French scrivener and manuscript-seller, and became posthumously known as an alchemist.
Biography
Born in Pontoise in 1330, Flamel later travel to Paris to work as a scrivener where he ammassed a considerable fortune for himself. This caused many rumors as to how he had managed to obtain such as vast fortune relativity quickly.
In his youth, Flamel had a strange dream in which an angel showed him an extraordinary book, known as the "Book of Abraham Eleazar" which later allowed him to discover the secrets of alchemy. He later wrote two journals during his quest to obtain the recipe of the Philosopher's stone, detailing the learnings of Abraham of Würzburg. The two journals, titled "True Magic" and "Divine Science", together formed the Book of Abraham. Flamel went on a pilgrimage to Saint-Jacques-de-Compostelle, where he met Maestro Canches, a Jewish Kabbalist who would give him certain keys for interpreting the book, allowing him to use alchemy to acquire his fortune.
While it is said that the philosopher's stone made Flamel immortal, it is known that he died on March 22, 1418. He is buried alongside his wife in the present-day Cluny Museum in Paris.