The French Knight Who Took A Hundred Galley Convicts Into the Streets of Plague Marseille and Came Out With Eight
The Chevalier Nicolas Roze organised the clearing of approximately 1,200 plague corpses from the Esplanade de la Tourette at Marseille in September 1720. He used condemned galley convicts as labour, promising their freedom if they survived. Eight of his hundred labourers did.
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