{"id":22315,"date":"2020-04-26T10:30:41","date_gmt":"2020-04-26T14:30:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.carlrobitaille.org\/?p=22315"},"modified":"2020-04-26T10:30:43","modified_gmt":"2020-04-26T14:30:43","slug":"great-plague-of-marseille","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.carlrobitaille.org\/?p=22315","title":{"rendered":"Great Plague of Marseille"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Great_Plague_of_Marseille\">Great Plague of Marseille<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Powerful city merchants needed the silk and cotton cargo of the ship for the great medieval fair at Beaucaire and pressured authorities to lift the quarantine.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Estimates indicate an overall death rate of between 25%-50% for the population in the larger area, with the city of Marseille at 40%, the area of Toulon at above 50%, and the area of Aix and Arles at 25%.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-twitter wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">In 1720 Marseille allowed a ship from plague-ridden Cyprus into port, under pressure from merchants who wanted the goods and didn\u2019t want to wait for the usual quarantine.  More than half the population of Marseille died in the next two years. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/IDapJhFhzM\">https:\/\/t.co\/IDapJhFhzM<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/vovtuQ1s7o\">pic.twitter.com\/vovtuQ1s7o<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Tim Stearns (@StearnsLab) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/StearnsLab\/status\/1254170977103044608?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 25, 2020<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Great Plague of Marseille &#8220;Powerful city merchants needed the silk and cotton cargo of the ship for the great medieval fair at Beaucaire and pressured authorities to lift the quarantine.&#8221; &#8220;Estimates indicate an overall death rate of between 25%-50% for &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.carlrobitaille.org\/?p=22315\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22315","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.carlrobitaille.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22315","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.carlrobitaille.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.carlrobitaille.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.carlrobitaille.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.carlrobitaille.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22315"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.carlrobitaille.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22315\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22316,"href":"https:\/\/blog.carlrobitaille.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22315\/revisions\/22316"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.carlrobitaille.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.carlrobitaille.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.carlrobitaille.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}