70+ Resources on epidemics that have marked history

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70+ Resources on epidemics that have marked history

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The year 2020 is widely marked by the epidemic crisis of Coronavirus or COVID-19. This virus, which affects all continents, shows points in common to the epidemics that our ancestors have known more or less distant. 

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Resource sites - chronologies of epidemics


The great demographic crises of the old regime by Thierry Sabot, history-generalogy

Epidemias, plagues and calamities until 2000 by the genealogical circle of Brie

Years of disease, epidemics, mortalities in Brittany On the Génvin Genealogy website

Medicine, climate, plagues on medics

Climate and epidemics calendar of the Finistère genealogical circle

Epidemia and famines In the Côtes-d'Armor

Epidemia and famines in France by the Lorraine genealogical circle of Ille de France

Epidemia and famines in France

List of famines in the world On Wikipedia

List of plagues in France by the life of our ancestors

List of plague epidemics On Wikipedia




Videos - the big pandemics explained


Before the coronavirus: the lessons of the pandemics - The walk of history with Jean Lebrun

History of major epidemics and pandemics - History Géo

Large epidemics: from the plague to the coronavirus - Sam Vostok


The large black plague of the Middle Ages - Note

1347: the black plague - Arte

At the heart of history: the large plague of 1348 - Europe 1

Plague: the great epidemic - in

Bubonic plague - Nat Geo France

The plague of 1720 in Marseille - Marion Sigaut


Cholera epidemic: gold fever - Discovery Channel France


The deadliest epidemic in history (Spanish flu) - the crazy story





Books and articles - Sources of knowledge ...


The fight against epidemics in the diocese of Rennes in the 18th century

A large epidemic in France in the 18th century: Dysentery of 1779

An epidemic in Lower Alsace in 1786

Old practices and new diseases: the difficult adaptation of health policy in the 19th century

Of the gesture that kills the saving gesture. Invasive Epidemics and Medical Procedures in Paris in the 19th century: the example of Port-Royal maternity

Epidemics in Marseille in the 19th century

Two epidemics in Blésois in the 19th century and their pharmacology treatment

The question of mores of epidemic times

Class hatred in epidemic times


The case of the plague

Letters relating to the history of plague epidemics

Mass for the plague

The plague in the High Middle Ages

Consequences and demographic interest of the black plague of 1348

The perception by contemporaries of the plague of 1348

The parish register of Givry (1334-1357) and the black plague in Burgundy

The population of Paris before the black plague

Albi and the black plague

The plague in Moncontour in 1500

The plague of 1628 in Rouergue

About the plague in the Alps: the canton of Uri in 1629

Around an ancient epidemic: the plague of 1666-1670

The plague of 1720 in Marseille

The catch-up of nuptiality after plague in Marseille (1720-1721)

From the body to the corpse during the great plague of Marseille (1720-1722): from osteo-archaeological and historical data to social representations of an epidemic

Bordeaux and the plague in the first half of the 17th century

Men and plague in France and in European and Mediterranean countries from the origins to 1850


Defain an epidemic: the work of military doctors on yellow fever in Mexico in 1862 and 1867

The first known description of an epidemic of yellow fever, Ménda (Mexico) 1648


Cholera. The first 20th century epidemic

Un « remède irlandais » contre le choléra

La Marche du cholera in France: 1832-1854

Cholera: present and past

Cholera in Paris in 1832

Spared cities? The cholera epidemic of 1832 in Elbeuf 

Measures taken against cholera of 1832 in Indre-et-Loire

Cholera and the question of unsanitary housing in Paris (1832-1849)

Aix-en-Provence and cholera in 1835

The epidemic, object of history: cholera in the canton of the Cabannes (1854)

Cholera in England in the 19th century: medicine to the test of statistics


Variétés : La « grippe » au XVIIIe siècle 

A tragedy in the tragedy: the Spanish flu in France (April 1918 - April 1919)

La grippe « espagnole » de 1918 à Caen et son impact au Bon-Sauveur

La grippe « espagnole » à Rouen

The flu in Bordeaux in 1918

The 1918 influenza epidemic in the islands of society



A song against the flu

A song against the flu - 1991 



The old press - Pandemias seen by our ancestors 


Flu in the old press - Retonews 

Cholera in the old press - Retonews

The plague in the old press - Retonews



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