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France 1564, and the country is, to be perfectly honest, a bit of a mess.

14-year-old King Charles the 9th has just formally ended his regency, but the young monarch

has no real interest in governing. After all, he's just 14 years old. His ineptitude means

the former regent, his mother, Catherine de Medici, continues to be the dominant power in French politics.

Before the regency's official dissolution, Catherine managed to address the country's increasingly

violent religious conflict by brokering the edict of Embois, which ended the first stage of the French Wars of Religion and brought

on a brief period of official peace between the Huguenots or French Protestants and Catholics.

In an effort to enforce the edict and to rally support for the crown in the wake of the unrest,

Catherine and Little Charles set out in March of 1564 for a two-year grand tour of France.

The tour took the pair and their roughly 20,000 person entourage across the country, from Paris to

Provence, Brittany to the Bourbonnet. Each stop on the tour was carefully planned to strengthen

loyalty in the provinces, but there is one stop designated for the King and Queen Mother's personal agenda.

In October, the tour reached the quiet southern town of Salon de Provence, home of the famed physician and occultist, Nostradamus.

That iconic name is likely known by a majority of modern listeners,

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