grippe

"Eh bien, mon prince, so Genoa and Lucca are now no more than family estates of the Bonapartes. (...)"
With these words the renowned Anna Pavlovna Scherer, lady-in-waiting and confidante to the Empress Marya Fyodorovna, greeted Prince Vasily, a man of high rank and office, who was the first to arrive at her soirée on a July evening in the year 1805.
Anna Pavlovna had been coughing for several days after having had the grippe, as she said (grippe being a new word used only by the elite).
Tolstoy in War in Peace. ou melhor, começando Guerra e Paz com essa associação genial de Napoleão a uma gripe.