Michael Scott - The Alchemyst

Although Nicholas and Perenelle continued to live quiet, unassuming lives,they gave a lot of their money to charity, and founded hospitals, churchesand orphanages.

The records show that Perenelle died first; not long after, in 1418, thedeath of Nicholas Flamel was recorded. His house was sold and the buyers torethe place apart looking for some of the Flamels great wealth. Nothing wasever found.

Later, in the dead of night, the tomb of Nicholas and Perenelle Flamel wasbroken into and that was when it was discovered that the tomb was empty. Hadthey been buried in secret graves, or had they never died in the first place?Paris buzzed with rumors, and the legend of the immortal Flamels began almostimmediately.

In the years to follow, there were sightings of the Flamels across Europe.

When I came out of the Auberge Nicolas Flamel that evening, I looked back atthe ancient house. Six hundred years ago, one of the most famous alchemistsin the world lived and worked there a man dedicated to science, who had madeand given away a vast fortune and whose house was preserved by the gratefulpeople of Paris, who even have streets named after him and his wife (the RueNicolas Flamel and the Rue Perenelle in the 4th Arrondissement).

An immortal.

And in that moment, I knew that the twins mentor was not Dee: Sophie andJosh would be taught by Nicholas and Perenelle. As I stood outside Nicholasand Perenelle s home on that wet fall evening, all the pieces of the bookcame together, and the Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel took shape.

Front entrance to the Auberge Nicolas Flamel (the Nicholas Flamel Hostel) onRue du Montmorency, Paris.