Nicolas Flamel (pronounced [nikɔˈlɑ flamɛl]) (traditionally, c. 1330–1418 AD) was a successful scrivener and manuscript-seller who developed a posthumous reputation as an alchemist due to his reputed work on the Philosopher's Stone.

An alchemical book, published in Paris in 1612 as Livre des figures hiéroglypiques and in london in 1624 as Exposition of the Hieroglyphicall Figures was attributed to Flamel.[1] It is a collection of designs purportedly commissioned oleh Flamel for a tympanum at the Cimetière des Innocents in Paris, long disappeared at the time the work was published. In the...