Great Plague of Marseille

The city of Marseille was painted by Michel Serre-Peste

The Great Plague of Marseille was an epidemic in Marseille, France. It started in 1720. It was the last big outbreak of the bubonic plague in Western Europe. The epidemic killed 100,000 people in the area. It soon ended in 1722.

The brown Rat that bears the Plague

Great Plague Of Marseille Media

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  Public notice on the disposal of corpses during the Great Plague, 1720

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  Chevalier Roze working at Esplanade de la Tourette during the height of the plague, supervising assembling of corpses for mass burial. Painting by Michel Serre.

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  The 18th-century mur de la peste (plague wall), Provence

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  Bubonic plague victims in a mass grave from 1720 to 1721 in Martigues, France