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Great Plague of Marseille

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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

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