A brief Journal of what passed in the City of Marseilles, while it was afflicted with the Plague, in the Year 1720

The 4th, the Officers of the Garison of Fort _St. John_ come to the Town-House, acquaint the Sheriffs that they are in want of Bread-Corn, and desire a Supply from them; declari...

This Day all the Millers and Bakers ceasing to work, because almost all their Servants have left them and fled, an Ordinance is issued at my Instance, requiring the Deserters to...

To conceive so many Horrors, one must figure to one's self, in one View, all the Miseries and Calamities that Human Nature is subject to; and one cannot venture to draw near suc...

Extracted from the REGISTER of the _Council-Chamber_ of the _Town-House_, kept by Monsieur PICHATTY DE CROISSAINTE, Counsellor and Orator of that City, and the King's Attorney i...

The 11th, there being hardly any Physicians remaining, and fewer Surgeons, the rest having deserted, or perished, their Art not availing them; the first President sends hither M...

The 5th, all the Physicians, as well Strangers, as of Faculty in this City, are convened at the Town-House, in the Presence of M. _de Langeron_, the Marquess de _Pilles_, and th...

The 6th, the grand Infirmaries having been for some time purified, M. _Michel_, a Physician of the Faculty of _Marseilles_, who had been shut up in them from the beginning of th...