Dr. Rieux consults his colleague, Castel, about the illness until they come to the conclusion that a plague is sweeping the town.

Rieux hears from the sanatorium that his wife's condition is worsening.

Towards the end of October, Castel's new anti-plague serum is tried for the first time, but it cannot save the life of Othon's young son, who suffers greatly, as Paneloux, Rieux, and Tarrou look on in horror.

Rieux reveals that he is the narrator of the chronicle and that he tried to present an objective view of the events.

Rieux reflects on the epidemic and reaches the conclusion that there is more to admire than to despise in humans.

* Dr. Castel: Dr. Castel is one of Rieux's medical colleagues and is much older than Rieux.

He tried but failed to write a letter to her, and he still grieves for his loss .</ br > Grand is a neighbor of Cottard, and it is he who calls Rieux for help, when Cottard tries to commit suicide.

* M. Michel: M. Michel is the concierge of the building in which Rieux lives.

* Dr. Bernard Rieux: Dr. Bernard Rieux is the narrator of the novel, although this is only revealed at the end.

It is Rieux who treats the first victim of plague and who first uses the word plague to describe the disease.

Within a short while, he grasps what is at stake and warns the authorities that unless steps are taken immediately, the epidemic could kill off half the town's population of two hundred thousand within a couple of months .</ br > During the epidemic, Rieux heads an auxiliary hospital and works long hours treating the victims.

Often the relatives plead with him not to do this, since they know they may never see the person again .</ br > Rieux works to combat the plague simply because he is a doctor and his job is to relieve human suffering.

He also keeps a diary, full of his observations of life in Oran, which Rieux incorporates into the narrative .</ br > It is Tarrou who first comes up with the idea of organizing teams of volunteers to fight the plague.

What interests him, he tells Rieux, is how to become a saint, even though he does not believe in God .</ br > Later in the novel, Tarrou tells Rieux, with whom he has become friends, the story of his life.

The theme of exile and separation is embodied in two characters, Rieux and Rambert, both of whom are separated from the women they love.

Rieux returns to the theme at the end of the novel, after the epidemic is over, when the depth of the feelings of exile and deprivation is clear from the overwhelming joy with which long parted lovers and family members greet each other.

The main character, Dr. Bernard Rieux, lives comfortably in an apartment building when strangely the building's concierge, M. Michel, a confidante, dies from a fever.

Meanwhile, Dr. Rieux, a vacationer Jean Tarrou, and a civil servant Joseph Grand exhaustively treat patients in their homes and in the hospital.

Rambert informs Tarrou of his escape plan, but when Tarrou tells him that others in the city, including Dr. Rieux, also have loved ones outside the city whom they are not allowed to see, Rambert becomes sympathetic and changes his mind.

He then decides to join Tarrou and Dr. Rieux to help fight the epidemic.

* Asthma Patient: The asthma patient receives regular visits from Dr. Rieux.

:* Dr. Bernard Rieux, whose ailment is a terrible cough, from Albert Camus's La Peste (" The Plague ").

In this letter he compares himself with the character of Dr. Rieux in Albert Camus ' novel The Plague and describes his hopeless struggle against a plague of death that slowly envelops the inhabitants of his city.

Tarrou tells Rieux the story of his life, and the two men go swimming together in the sea.

Grand catches the plague and instructs Rieux to burn all his papers.

Grand tells Rieux that he married while still in his teens, but overwork and poverty took their toll ( Grand did not receive the career advancement that he had been promised ), and his wife Jeanne left him.

Rieux regards him as " the true embodiment of the quiet courage that inspired the sanitary groups.

Rieux is like a witness who exercises restraint when called to testify about a crime ; he describes what the characters said and did, without speculating about their thoughts and feelings, although he does offer generalized assessments of the shifting mood of the town as a whole.

After Mary was betrothed to the Dauphin, a number of ladies of the court were suggested as brides for James, including in May 1557 the Mademoiselle de Bouillon, daughter of Diane de Poitiers and Henry II, Claude and Louise de Rieux, who married René, Marquis of Elbeuf, and Jeane de Savoie.

The child in question is Jacques Othon, and Paneloux, along with Rieux and Tarrou, witnesses his horrible death.

His illness is not consistent with the symptoms of the plague, and the inexplicable nature of the illness leads Rieux to diagnose him as a " doubtful case ".

It is clear that Camus's sympathy in this contrast of ideas lies with Rieux and Tarrou.

There is a peaceful image of Rieux lying motionless on his back gazing up at the stars and moon, and then when Tarrou joins him they swim side by side, " with the same zest, the same rhythm, isolated from the world, at last free of the town and of the plague.

In 1495, to settle a dispute with his second cousin, Jean IV de Rieux, over their grandmothers ' inheritance, he ceded to Jean the county of Harcourt and its appurtenances, retaining only Elbeuf and Brionne, and receiving the county of Aumale.

When Tarrou points out that " victories will never be lasting ," Rieux admits that he is involved in a " never ending defeat ," but this does not stop him from engaging in the struggle.

Passerat's exact share in the Satire Ménippée ( Tours, 1594 ), the great manifesto of the politique or Moderate Royalist party when it had declared itself for Henry of Navarre, is unknown ; but it is agreed that he wrote most of the verse, and the harangue of the guerrilla chief Rieux is sometimes attributed to him.

Later in the novel, when Tarrou tells Rieux the story of his life, he adds a new dimension to the term ” plague .“ He views it not just as a specific disease or simply as the presence of an impersonal evil external to humans.

A significant episode occurs near the end of part IV, when Tarrou and Rieux sit on the terrace of a house, from which they can see far into the horizon.

She was the daughter of Guillaume de Penancoët, Seigneur de Kérouaille ( d. 1690 ) and wife ( married on February 27, 1645 ) Marie de Ploeuc de Timeur ( d. January 1709 ), paternal granddaughter of René de Penancoët, Seigneur de Kérouaille et Villeneuve, and wife ( married on October 12, 1602 ) Julienne Emery du Pont-l ' Abbé, Dame du Chef du Bois, and maternal granddaughter of Sébastien de Ploeuc, Marquis de Timeur, and wife ( married on January 8, 1617 ) Marie de Rieux ( d. 1628 ).

Dr. Gillian Tett, a Cambridge University trained anthropologist who went on to become a senior editor at the Financial Times is one of the leaders in this use of anthropology.

The obituary stated (" The merchant of death is dead ") and went on to say, " Dr. Alfred Nobel, who became rich by finding ways to kill more people faster than ever before, died yesterday.

When he contracts the plague, he is the first to receive Dr. Castel's anti-plague serum.

* Dr. Richard: Dr. Richard is chairman of the Oran Medical Association.

* 1955 – The polio vaccine, developed by Dr. Jonas Salk, is declared safe and effective.

* 1786 – Mont Blanc on the French – Italian border is climbed for the first time by Jacques Balmat and Dr. Michel-Gabriel Paccard.

Unlike his translation of the Pastoral Care, Alfred here deals very freely with his original and though the late Dr. G. Schepss showed that many of the additions to the text are to be traced not to Alfred himself, but to the glosses and commentaries which he used, still there is much in the work which is solely Alfred's and highly characteristic of his style.

Dr. Alastair Northedge, a British archaeologist who wrote a book about findings in ' Anah, wrote that the minaret is ' commonly attributed to the Uqaylid ( dynasty ) and the 5th / 11th century ( AH / AD ), though ... more probably of the 6th / 12th century.

* Full stops / Periods in abbreviations: Americans tend to write Mr., Mrs., St., Dr .; the British will most often write Mr, Mrs, St, Dr, following the rule that a full stop / period is used only when the last letter of the abbreviation is not the last letter of the complete word.

Alcoholics Anonymous ( AA ) is an international mutual aid movement founded in 1935 by Bill Wilson and Dr. Bob Smith ( Bill W. and Dr. Bob ) in Akron, Ohio.