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The Black Death — The epidemic that reached France in 1347 and ravaged it in 1348–1349
Come by a Mediterranean port, it moved up the kingdom in two years and carried off a share of the population no one can count. It made the war forgotten, emptied the countryside and left the king a country he no longer knew how to tax. (Editorial synthesis)
The Black Death began in 1347 (Julian calendar). (source: Larousse and Encyclopædia Universalis)
The Black Death ended in 1349 (Julian calendar). (source: Encyclopædia Universalis)
The Black Death ended in a kingdom depopulated in the middle of the war. (source: Larousse and Encyclopædia Universalis)
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