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The Mediterranenan Corso
Cod fishing
Plague

Main topics: 

  • 18th century trade
  • The Mediterranean Corso
  • Privateers
  • International diplomacy
Advised from the 8th grade

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If the subject interests you:

  • Salvatore Bono, Privateers in the Mediterranean, Paris: Paris-Méditerranée, 1998 [reed. 2000]
  • File ‘Slavery in the Mediterranean in the modern era’, Cahiers de la Méditerranée, 62 (2002)
  • File ‘Captives and captivities in the Mediterranean in modern times’, Cahiers de la Méditerranée, 87 (2013)

Main topics

  •  18th century trade
  • Cod fishing 
  • The salt marshes 
  • 18th century wars
Advised from the 7th grade
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If the subject interests you:

  • ‘Fishing by the French in Newfoundland in the 18th century’, from the Newfoundland and Labrador Heritage Website
  • ‘The way of life of fishermen between 1600 and 1900’, in the Newfoundland and Labrador Heritage Website

Main topics 

  • The plague in the 18th century
  • Health provisions related to the disease

Recommended from the 11th grade

If the subject interests you:

  • Carrière Charles, Courdurié Marcel, Rebuffat Ferréol, Marseille dead city: The plague of 1720, Autres Temps, 2008.
  • Camus Albert, La Peste, France, Gallimard, 1947.
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