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1 Name
2 Expansion
3 Grand-Sainte-Antoine
4 Translation into Chinese Wikipedia

[edit] Name

Should the article page be renamed from "Great Plague of Marseille" to "Great Plague of Marseilles" (note the additional letter "s" at the end of Marseilles)? The "Category:Pandemics" page lists the "Great Plague of Marseilles", which is an invalid link because of the extra letter "s" But since the French city's name is actually "Marseilles" (with the "s"), then this article should be renamed.

I think you'll find the city is spelled both Marseille and Marseilles in both French and English, and that Marseille is the preferred spelling (in both the French Larousse and the English Merriam Webster). Best just make a redirect. - Nunh-huh 00:42, 28 November 2006 (UTC)

OK...thanks...I see the Category:Pandemics entry now points to ...Marseille (without the "S") now so the broken link is fixed which is all that really matters. (although I didn't know that BOTH Marseille and Marseilles were valid - thanks for the info)

Thanks for spotting the problem. - Nunh-huh 03:13, 30 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Expansion

Since Marseille suffered so many plagues, I think it would be worth adding a section to this article with a bit more timeline information as to when each version occurred, which disease it was, and what percentage of the city's population was affected. --El on ka 12:05, 25 April 2008 (UTC)

The other plagues occurred in 1348 (black death), recurring intermittently until 1361, then in 1580 and 1582 (black death), 1649-50 (black death) until the last great plague of 1720, described in this article. Mathsci (talk) 13:07, 25 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Grand-Sainte-Antoine

One of the original sources for this article might have been the Michelin Green Guide to Provence, which has similar sentences on Page 177 ("The Great Plague"); it also lists Syria as the departure point of the Grande-Saint-Antoine rather than Sidon (Seyde) in the Lebanon. Syria, also mentioned on the French WP page, seems incorrect. Duchene and Contrucci state that the ship left Sidon on April 19, 1720, under Captain Chataud, having called beforehand at Smyrna, Tripoli and Cyprus. On April 5th a Turkish passenger fell ill and was given a sea-burial; after the 27th four sailors and the boat's surgeon succumbed to the plague. Mathsci (talk) 08:07, 26 April 2008 (UTC)