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The most renowned and populated city in France after Paris,
MARSEILLE
has - like the capital - prospered and been ransacked over the centuries. It has lost its privileges to sundry French kings and foreign armies, recovered its fortunes, suffered plagues, religious bigotry, republican and royalist Terror and had its own Commune and Bastille-storming. It was the presence of so many Marseillaise Revolutionaries marching from the Rhine to Paris in 1792 which gave the
Hymn of the Army of the Rhine
its name of
La Marseillaise
, later to become the national anthem.
The City
Marseille is divided into sixteen
arrondissements
which spiral out from the focal point of the city, the
Vieux Port
. Due north lies the old town,
Le Panier
, site of the original Greek settlement of Massalia. The wide...
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