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That change has been positive. Tourism is rising, the flight of Marseillais has halted, and young, affluent professionals from around the country are moving in. "I have never seen people so enthusiastic about Marseilles," says native Jöel Merle, who manages a real-estate agency on Marseilles' historic Vieux...
As befits one of America's most elegant writers about food, she has compiled loving evocations of great restaurants, memorable meals and, particularly, the briny-fresh seafood: sardines, sea urchins and shrimps that pass in mighty shoals each night through the city's venerable fish market. The author...
For three years skeptical Frenchmen have watched Le Corbusier's ultramodern "Radiant City" taking form in the suburbs of Marseille (TIME, Feb. 2, 1948; June 12, 1950). They found plenty of fault with the 300-family apartment house. The quarters were cramped, the master bedrooms offered hardly any privacy...
Waterfront riffraff and cheap gangsters of all nations, plus open and tawdry vice, are typical of famed Marseille, but so too is the soaring, indomitable spirit of its sunny French citizens. The true Marseillais is bold, humorous, boastful and greathearted. Last week stout, jovial, bearded Louis Frichet, one of the...
Marseilles. The toughest city west of Suez is ardently, definitely Socialist and will take no dictatorship from Paris. Despite the Government's best efforts, export trade with the colonies, life blood of the port, has slumped. A local irk is the fact that, of all the Marseillais on the...
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