Roze knight

The Chevalier Roze , of its name Nicolas Roze (born in 1675 and deceased in 1733 with Marseilles) is one of the noble ones which was particularly distinguished in 1720 at the time of the Peste to Marseilles, in particular by releasing the esplanade of Tourette of its corpses. To achieve this task, the Roze Knight makes open two old bastions in the district of Tourette and throws there the corpses “which present hardly the human form and whose worms put the members moving”, with the assistance of a company of approximately 150 soldiers and Forçat S: the corbel X.

During the episode of the plague, it organizes also the supply of the city and creates a Hôpital.

The Roze knight was reached by the plague, but he escaped from it by miracle taking into account the chances of survival which did not exceed for thousand.

Nowadays, its name remained:

on a street of the 2nd district of Marseilles,
with the southern turn of the Stage Cycle-racing track, in Marseilles,
in the novel of Victor Hugo the Poor wretches
a bust in Bronze was drawn up behind the Old man-Port with the Place Fountain Rouvier.

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