Mazargues

Mazargues is a residential district of Marseilles, Rhone delta, being in the 9 {{E}} district.

The district is located between the Michelet boulevard and the road of Cassis, in the Canton of Marseilles-Mazargues.

History of Mazargues

Nothing makes it possible to say if Mazargues existed during Antiquity when Massilia developed.

The oldest acts, relating to Mazargues , come from the Abbaye of Saint-Victor of Marseilles and go back to 1096 and 1113.

At that time Mazargues was not yet an agglomeration, at most a ground in the territory of " Saint-Genes" (Saint-Giniez).

Madam of Grignan, happy owner of a country house in the district of Mazargues about which it did not dry up praises, described in these terms this hamlet, in a mail addressed to Madam de Coulanges dated February 5th, 1703: " One sees there only people who die in hundred years; the diseases are not known; the good air and good water make there reign not only health, but the beauty. In the canton you see only pretty faces, that men well done, and the old men like the young people have the most beautiful teeth of the world. If there are people which arrive at the idea of the happy people represented in Télémaque, it is that of Mazargues "

The castle of Mazargues which was burnt for the revolutionary period found, according to Alfred Saurel, with the angle of the way of the Lancier and the way of Mazargues .

The obelisk of Mazargues was set up in 1811 by the Michaud architect. This obelisk was in the beginning on the Castellane place.

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Statistics districts 9th district of Marseilles

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