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jbmorgado on April 18, 2016 | parent | context | favorite | on: The Black Death: The Greatest Catastrophe (2005)

Louis XIV died from a gangrene caused by a combination of gout and syphilis. Not from smallpox.

encoderer on April 18, 2016 [–]

Ha, you are right. It was Louis XV.

It's been a while since I read French history.

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