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The Château d'If (close up) The Château d'If with Marseille in the background. The Château d'If (French pronunciation: [ʃɑto dif]) is a fortress located on the Île d'If, the smallest island in the Frioul archipelago, situated about 1.5 kilometres (7 ⁄ 8 mile) offshore from Marseille in southeastern France. Built in the 16th century, it ...
Jean-Baptiste Grosson, royal notary, wrote from 1770 to 1791 the historical Almanac of Marseille, published as Recueil des antiquités et des monuments marseillais qui peuvent intéresser l'histoire et les arts ("Collection of antiquities and Marseille monuments which can interest history and the arts"), which for a long time was the primary ...
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Société de statistique de Marseille established. [19] 1836 - Population: 148,597. [20] 1837 - Porte d'Aix (arch) inaugurated. 1846 - Journal de Marseille newspaper begins publication. [21] 1848 Paris–Marseille railway begins operating. Gare de Marseille-Saint-Charles opens. 1849 - Canal de Marseille opens (97 miles long). [2]
The Marseille History Museum (French: Musée d'Histoire de Marseille) is the local historical and archaeological museum of Marseille in France.When opened in 1983, it became one of the most significant museums for urban history in France, dedicated to exhibiting the major archaeological finds discovered after the site was excavated in 1967; at the same time the property was redeveloped ...
Map of Marseille, 1720. According to John Murray, [2] in 1854 the Old Port had a capacity of between 1,000 and 1,200 ships. Roughly 18,000 merchant ships passed through the port each year, carrying about 20 million barrels worth of freight; this represented a quarter of the trade in Liverpool at the time.
Fort Saint-Jean (French pronunciation: [fɔʁ sɛ̃ʒɑ̃]) is a fortification in Marseille, built in 1660 by Louis XIV at the entrance to the Old Port.Since 2013, it has been linked by two foot-bridges to the historical district Le Panier and to the Museum of European and Mediterranean Civilisations; the latter being the first French national museum to be located outside Paris.
On 23 March 1871, inspired by the establishment of the Paris Commune, a crowd of revolutionary guardsmen led by Gaston Crémieux stormed both the city hall and the prefecture, took the mayor and prefect prisoner and declared a similar commune in Marseille. On 4 April 1871, General Henry Espivent de la Villeboisnet entered the city with six to ...