Excerpt from History of Prostitution Among All the Peoples of the World, From the Most Remote Antiquity to the Present Day, Vol. 3

The decree of Parliament of the sixth of March, 1497 (1496, according to the Pascalian calendar), leaves no doubt that the plague of Naples had reigned throughout the realm from the year 1494, but the date of its invasion of each particular province and city had not yet been determined. The municipal and consular archives furnish a number of precise documents on this point. Astruc, in his great monograph, has cited only two facts which in dicate the introduction of the plague of Naples among the Romans at Dauphine and at Puy en Velay in the year 1496: The malady of las bubas, say the records of the University of Manosque, was brought that year by certain Roman soldiers in Dauphine, who were in the service of the King and of the most illustrious Duke of Orleans, into the city, their fatherland, which was still healthy and which had not yet made the acquaintance of this malady, a malady which no longer reigned in Provence. In an unpublished chronicle of the city of Puy en Velay, the author, Esteve de Meges, a bourgeois of that city (reports that the grosse vérole had appeared for the first time at Puy in the course of the year 1496. The extract from the records of Manosque is very precious in that it tends to prove that the army of Charles VIII, on its return from the expedition to Naples, had been infected with a new malady, and that this malady had manifested itself in the year 1495 all along the route followed by the debris of this army, which returned to France in disorganized hands after the battle of Fomoua. The soldiers who brought the plague of Naples to the Romans had, undoubtedly, formed a part of the rear guard who shut themselves in Novare with the Duke of Orleans, and who.

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