Template:1418-08-00-Paris
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| 1418, August | Mortality due to plague (boce) in Paris, especially dangerous among young persons and children | Item, en celuy temps, vers la fin du moy d'aoust, faisoit si grant chalour de jour et de nuyt, que homme ne femme ne povoit dormir par nuyt, et avec ce estoit tres grant mortalité de boce et l'espidymie, et tout sur jeune gent et sur enfens [1] | That year, in the end of August, the heat was so important day and night that people could not even sleep. Meanwhile, there was a great mortality of boce and a great epidemic, mostly among young people and children. (Translation: Thomas Labbé) |