the plague

Thousands of people died during the plague.

Des milliers de personnes sont mortes pendant la peste.

They wrote about them in the Middle Ages during the plague.

Ils en ont parlé au Moyen Âge, pendant la peste.

— Cold Storage (2026)

They fear it like the plague.

Ils le craignent comme la peste.

— Stalker (1979)

"Now, he had a wife, the plague of his life, "who continually got his goat.

Or, il avait une femme, le fléau de sa vie, « qui le faisait constamment sortir de ses gonds.

— Dead Poets Society (1989)

Yes, especially when he spoke of the plague.

Oui, surtout lorsqu'il parlait de la peste.

— Manon of the Spring (1986)

I might as well have had the plague, like a character from a novel by Manzoni.

J’aurais tout aussi bien pu avoir la peste, comme un personnage d’un roman de Manzoni.

— Divorce Italian Style (1961)

It's worse than bandits the plague famine fire or war.

C’est pire que les bandits, la peste, la famine, le feu ou la guerre.

— Rashomon (1950)