KAŽDODENNOSŤ V ČASE CHOLERY: PARÍŽ ROKU 1832 OČAMI UHORSKÉHO GRÓFA RUDOLFA APPONYIHO

This text deals with the epidemic of cholera in Paris 1832 as it was recorded in the diaries of the Hungarian aristocrat, an attaché in Paris, Rudolf Apponyi de Nagy-Appony. It concentrates on the quotidian life in Paris under epidemics between March and September 1832. First, it describes the family background of Count Apponyi, then it briefly sums up the cholera epidemics and then it proceeds to the three particular targets: 1/ The changes in the narrative of the origin and a nature of the disease as it were spread in Paris under cholera in 1832; 2/ The vision of cholera in the light of the then widely accepted miasmatical theory of the origin of disease, and 3/ The religious response to the epidemic and its manifestations.