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When it arrived at Marseille, it was promptly placed under [[quarantine]] in the ''[[Lazaretto|lazaret]]'' by the port authorities.<ref> Duchêne & Contrucci (2004), pp. 361–362.</ref> Due largely to Marseille's monopoly on French trade with the Levant, this important port had a large stock of imported goods in warehouses. It was also expanding its trade with other areas of the Middle East and emerging markets in the New World. Powerful city merchants wanted the [[silk]] and [[cotton]] cargo of the ship for the great medieval fair at [[Beaucaire, Gard|Beaucaire]] and pressured authorities to lift the quarantine. {{cn|date=December 2020}} <ref>p. 17-19 Cindy Ermus</ref>
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A few days later, the disease broke out in the city. Hospitals were quickly overwhelmed, and residents panicked, driving the sick from their homes and out of the city. Mass graves were dug but were quickly filled. Eventually, the number of dead overcame city public health efforts, until thousands of corpses lay scattered and in piles around the city.{{cn|date=December 2020}}
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