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The Plague at Marseilles The bishop of Marseilles blesses victims of the plague that overwhelmed Marseilles in 1720. Some one hundred thousand people died in the outbreak, which was the last great episode of plague in western Europe.
(By Nicolas-André Monsiau [1754–1837], [oil on canvas]/Photo: Christian Jean/Musée du Louvre, Paris, France/© RMN–Grand Palais/Art Resource, NY)