History UsefulNotes / TheCountOfStGermain

Third: He was a true Renaissance man gifted in a host of skills from music to courtly decorum famous for making himself useful to the powerful, and even more famous for making even more tall claims about himself, including that he could purify gemstones and was immortal. And because of point 1, he was more likely to be believed or at least humored than some random off the street. It is telling that when Creator/Voltaire described him as "A man knows everything and who never dies" he was high praise for being only MOSTLY sarcastic.

Third: He was famous for making tall claims about himself, including that he could purify gemstones and was immortal. And because of point 1, he was more likely to be believed or at least humored than some random off the street.

* Very plot-relevant in ''TabletopGame/UnknownArmies'', where he's a very powerful sadist.
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* Le Comte is the herald of ''VideoGame/CardShark''. He trains the main character into becoming a world-class scammer.

Nobleman up there is in quotes because his actual familial origins are unclear. He would claim to be descended from nobility or royalty from various places (from Transylvania to Spain), but also used several names throughout his travels and deliberately obfuscated his backstory. What does seem to be actual historical fact is that he spent time in England (where he was arrested for suspected espionage), the Dutch Republic, France (specifically the court of UsefulNotes/LouisXV), and Russia mingling with European high society. He died in 1784 in Schleswig, Germany. Two books have been attributed to him: the esoteric ''La Très Sainte Trinosophie'' and an untitled manuscript called the "Triangular book".

There is, however, one major detail that keeps him from being written off as another self-mythologizing eccentric European socialite and allows him to remain in the popular imagination -- St. Germain was a skilled chemist and rumored alchemist. He claimed to be able to transmute metals and purify gemstones (in fact, his aforementioned death was in a factory designed to study alchemy and herbal remedies).

Naturally, rumors about him began to spread -- that he helped put UsefulNotes/CatherineTheGreat on the Russian throne, that Creator/GiacomoCasanova himself was jealous of the count's skill with the ladies, that he was a friend and mentor of Alessandro Cagliostro. Supernatural talk followed him, too -- that he was immortal, the WanderingJew, a prophet, an occultist, the possessor of the PhilosophersStone, the reincarnation of several prominent figures, and so on. There are multiple claimed sightings of him after his recorded death. In fact, Count St. Germain is a major figure in [[UsefulNotes/TheosophicalSociety Theosophy]] and some New Age belief systems.

There is, however, one major detail that keeps him from being written off as another self-mythologizing eccentric European socialite and allows him to remain in the popular imagination -- St. Germain was a skilled chemist and rumored alchemist. He claimed to be able to transmute metals and purify gemstones (in fact, his aforementioned death was in a factory designed to study alchemy and herbal remedies). Naturally, rumors about him began to spread -- that he helped put UsefulNotes/CatherineTheGreat on the throne, that Creator/GiacomoCasanova himself was jealous of the count's skill with the ladies, that he was a friend and mentor of Alessandro Cagliostro. Supernatural talk followed him, too -- was immortal, the WanderingJew, a prophet, an occultist, the possessor of the PhilosophersStone, the reincarnation of several prominent figures, and so on. There are multiple claimed sightings of him after his alleged death. In fact, Count St. Germain is a major figure in [[UsefulNotes/TheosophicalSociety Theosophy]] and New Age belief systems.

These rumors about the count would follow him into fiction, which often utilizes BeethovenWasAnAlienSpy or HistoricalDomainSuperperson to explain his alchemy, charm, and alleged immortality -- [[AlchemyIsMagic translating his interest in alchemy as actual magical skill]], making him a {{time travel}}er or associating him with time, or straight-up making him LongLived.

* In ''ComicBook/ShangChiMasterOfKungFu2002'', the Count of St. Germain is [[JuliusBeethovenDaVinci one of the aliases of]] Shang-Chi's immortal crime lord father.

* Fitting for a story about immortals, he is mentioned in ''Literature/{{Baccano}}'' to have been a "famous immortal alchemist and peerless information
broker". Gustav takes on his surname of St. Germain as a pseudonym.

These rumors about the count would follow him into fiction, which often utilizes BeethovenWasAnAlienSpy or HistoricalDomainSuperperson to explain his alchemy, charm, and alleged immortality. Fictional portrayals will go with at least one: [[AlchemyIsMagic translating his interest in alchemy as actual magical skill]], making him a {{time travel}}er or associating him with time, or straight-up making him LongLived.

These rumors about the count would follow him into fiction, which often utilizes BeethovenWasAnAlienSpy or HistoricalDomainSuperperson to explain his alchemy, charm, and alleged immortality.

There is, however, one major detail that keeps him from being written off as another eccentric European socialite and allows him to remain in the popular imagination -- St. Germain was a skilled chemist and rumored alchemist. He claimed to be able to transmute metals and purify gemstones (in fact, his aforementioned death was in a factory designed to study alchemy and herbal remedies). Naturally, rumors about him began to spread -- that he helped put UsefulNotes/CatherineTheGreat on the throne, that Creator/GiacomoCasanova himself was jealous of the count's skill with the ladies, that he was a friend and mentor of Alessandro Cagliostro. Supernatural talk followed him, too -- was immortal, the WanderingJew, a prophet, an occultist, the possessor of the PhilosophersStone, the reincarnation of several prominent figures, and so on. There are multiple claimed sightings of him after his alleged death. In fact, Count St. Germain is a major figure in [[UsefulNotes/TheosophicalSociety Theosophy]] and New Age belief systems.

There is, however, one major detail that keeps him from being written off as another eccentric European socialite and allows him to remain in the popular imagination -- St. Germain was a skilled chemist and rumored alchemist. He claimed to be able to transmute metals and purify gemstones (in fact, his aforementioned death was in a factory designed to study alchemy and herbal remedies). Naturally, rumors about him began to spread -- that he helped put UsefulNotes/CatherineTheGreat on the throne, that Creator/GiacomoCasanova himself was jealous of the count's skill with the ladies, that he was a friend and mentor of Alessandro Cagliostro. Supernatural talk followed him, too -- was immortal, the Wandering Jew, a prophet, an occultist, the reincarnation of several prominent figures, and so on. There are multiple claimed sightings of him after his alleged death. In fact, Count St. Germain is a major figure in Theosophy and New Age belief systems.

* In ''ComicBook/ShangChiMasterOfKungFu'', the Count of St. Germain is [[JuliusBeethovenDaVinci one of the aliases of]] Shang-Chi's immortal crime lord father.