La contagion des rumeurs. Information consulaire, santé et rivalité commerciale des ports francs (Livourne, Marseille et Gênes, 1670-1690)
Résumé
Focusing on the correspondence of the French consul in Livorno, this contribution examines the way in which consuls dealt with and diffused information about health and hygiene in the Mediterranean. It distinguishes two types of dispatches used to warn about risks of plagues (precaution and precision) and shows how instrumentalising rumours about public health could play an important part in the economic competition between the so- called “free-ports” of Marseille, Gênes, and Livorno at the end of the seventeenth century.
À travers la correspondance du consul français de Livourne, la contribution examine la manière dont les consuls traitent et diffusent l'information sanitaire en Méditerranée. Elle distingue deux types de dépêches envoyées pour renseigner sur le risque de peste (précaution et précision) et montre comment l'instrumentalisation de la rumeur sanitaire participe pleinement de la concurrence économique des ports francs de Marseille, Gênes et Livourne au tournant des XVII et XVIII siècles. e e ABSTRACT-Focusing on the correspondence of the French consul in Livorno, this contribution examines the way in which consuls dealt with and diffused information about health and hygiene in the Mediterranean. It distinguishes two types of dispatches used to warn about risks of plagues (precaution and precision) and shows how instrumentalising rumours about public health could play an important part in the economic competition between the socalled "free-ports" of Marseille, Gênes, and Livorno at the end of the seventeenth century.
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