Nicolas Flamel

[EvenCirce713 at aol.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 9713

--- In HPforGrownups at egroups.com, eggplant88 at h... wrote:
> Rowling didn't just make up the name Nicolas Flamel he was a real 
> historic figure, he was an alchemist who spent his life looking, 
> unsuccessful, for the Philosopher's Stone (not the sorcerer's 
> stone!), he even had a wife named Perenelle. The exact date of his 
> birth or death is not known but he published his book in 1414, so he 
> would be about 656 if he were still around 1n 1991 for the first 
> Harry Potter adventure. By the way Michael Myers, the villain of the 
> Halloween movies, was also the name of a medieval 
> Alchemist.

If you want to check out something interesting, check this about Nicholas 
Flamel. I more or les stumbled across this <A 
HREF="http://nicolasflamel.forez.com/default-uk.htm">AUBERGE NICOLAS FLAMEL 
restaurant- Paris'Oldest house(1407)</A>  by accident, 
surfing restaurants in Paris for a suitable spot for Harry's fifteenth 
birthday celebration in my fanfiction.

If the link doesn't work, here's the URL  
http://nicolasflamel.forez.com/default-uk.htm
~Circe