Elle a emport\u00e9, en l\u2019espace de trois ans, la vie d\u2019au moins 50\u00a0000 habitants \u00e0 Marseille, soit pr\u00e8s de la moiti\u00e9 de la population, avant de se propager \u00e0 travers la r\u00e9gion, du Comtat-Venaissin au Languedoc, o\u00f9 plus de 100\u00a0000 personnes ont \u00e9galement succomb\u00e9. Cette \u00e9pid\u00e9mie de peste a sem\u00e9 la mort \u00e0 partir du printemps\u00a01720.<\/p>\n
C\u2019est la cargaison du Grand Saint-Antoine, un vaisseau marchand arrivant du Proche-Orient les cales pleines d\u2019\u00e9toffes, de soieries et autres tissus porteurs du bacille responsable de la peste, qui a \u00e9t\u00e9 identifi\u00e9e comme \u00e9tant \u00e0 l\u2019origine de cette h\u00e9catombe. Ce voilier trois-m\u00e2ts a ensuite br\u00fbl\u00e9 dans une calanque de l\u2019\u00eele de Jarre o\u00f9 il mouillait.<\/p>\n
\u00ab\u00a0Pr\u00e9senter l\u2019\u00e9pave aux Marseillais, un r\u00eave\u00a0\u00bb<\/p>\n
Ce n\u2019est qu\u2019en\u00a01978 que l\u2019\u00e9pave du Grand Saint-Antoine a \u00e9t\u00e9 localis\u00e9e. De mani\u00e8re assez fortuite, ce qui rend son histoire encore plus passionnante. Apr\u00e8s avoir rep\u00e9r\u00e9 des morceaux de bois \u00e0 une douzaine de m\u00e8tres de profondeur, au niveau de l\u2019\u00eele de Jarron, Daniel Moussynat, plongeur aguerri, avait fait part de sa trouvaille \u00e0 un ami, Christian Barsacq qui venait de lire Marseille, ville morte, livre de Charles Carri\u00e8re relatant cet \u00e9pisode de peste et notamment l\u2019incendie du…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Elle a emport\u00e9, en l\u2019espace de trois ans, la vie d\u2019au moins 50\u00a0000 habitants \u00e0 Marseille, soit pr\u00e8s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":398160,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2814],"tags":[17,1111,11,52987,1777,674,1011,27,2515,937,38085,884,6127,12,52986,882,16,25,17538],"class_list":{"0":"post-398159","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-marseille","8":"tag-17","9":"tag-actu","10":"tag-actualites","11":"tag-captivante","12":"tag-eu","13":"tag-europe","14":"tag-fr","15":"tag-france","16":"tag-grand","17":"tag-histoire","18":"tag-lorigine","19":"tag-marseille","20":"tag-mer","21":"tag-news","22":"tag-parlons","23":"tag-provence-alpes-cote-dazur","24":"tag-region","25":"tag-republique-francaise","26":"tag-saint-antoine"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@fr\/115221194563354845","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398159","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=398159"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398159\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/398160"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=398159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=398159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=398159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}