What is Great Plague of Marseille?
[[File:Michel Serre-Peste-Cours Belsunce.jpg|thumb|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. [[File:Gris rat aloyî.jpg|thumb|The brown Rat that bears the Plague]] ==References== {{reflist}} [[Category:Plague pandemics]] [[Category:Diseases caused by bacteria]] {{europe-stub}}