Rue Saint-Ferréol
Pedestrian shopping street once lined with mansions, marked nearby by a maritime plague memorial.
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This guide to Rue Saint-Ferréol in Marseille traces the arrival of the Grand Saint-Antoine in 1720, a plague ship from the Levant carrying a fortune in silk and cotton bound for a fair in Beaucaire. It follows the pressure that pushed the ship's cargo ashore early despite quarantine rules, and the toll that followed for a city of under one hundred thousand people. A memorial column carved from stone pulled from an old abbey crypt once stood at the head of this street, topped by a bronze figure called the Genius of Immortality.
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