Nicolas Flamel and Pernelle, his wife, a French scribe and manuscript-seller - stock illustration

Vintage illustration of Nicolas Flamel et Pernelle, sa femme, d'après la peinture que ce célèbre écrivain avait fait exécuter à la fin du quinzième siècle sous les charniers du cimetière des Inocents, à Paris. Nicolas Flamel and Pernelle, his wife, after the painting that this famous writer had executed at the end of the fifteenth century under the mass graves of the cemetery of the Inocents, in Paris. A French scribe and manuscript-seller. After his death, Flamel developed a reputation as an alchemist believed to have discovered the philosopher's stone and to have thereby achieved immortality.