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Belsunce Breakdown
Belsunce (, ) is a district near Canebière, central Marseille. Its name was given by Monseigneur Henri François Xavier de Belsunce de Castelmoron, who famously helped during the Great Plague of Marseille The Great Plague of Marseille, also known as the Plague of Provence, was the last major outbreak of bubonic plague in Western Europe. Arriving in Marseille, France, in 1720, the disease killed over 100,000 people: 50,000 in the city during the n .... Belsunce is a popular area from the "Centre Bourse" to the big shopping crentre of central Marseille. It includes the famous Alcazar, an old theatre that has been converted into a library. External links *http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xmp105_belsunce-un-quartier-cosmopolite-marseille_creation *http://www.marseilleforum.com/5-quartier-belsunce-noailles-porte-d-aix.htm *http://gmlveb.blogspot.ca/p/visite-du-quartier-de-belsunce.html Quarters of Marseille {{BouchesRhône-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Meridional French
Meridional French (), also referred to as Francitan (a portmanteau of and ), is the regional variant of the French language spoken in the area of Marseille, Avignon and Toulouse. It is influenced by the Occitan language. There are speakers of Meridional French in all generations, but the accent is most marked among the elderly, who often speak Occitan as their first language. Characteristics The phonology, morphology, syntax and lexicon of Occitan have all influenced Meridional French, but the phonological effects are perhaps the most salient by producing the characteristic accent, which is used by speakers of Meridional French. Those effects include the following: * The loss of phonemic nasal vowels, which are replaced by an oral vowel followed by a nasal consonant * the frequent realisation of the final atonal vowels of Latin, which are lost by speakers of other varieties of French, as schwa * the presence of lexical stress on the penultimate syllable of many words, in con ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Canebière
La Canebière is a historic high street in the old quarter of Marseille, France. Location About a kilometre long, it runs from the ''Old Port of Marseille'' to the ''Réformés'' quarter.Dana Facaros, Michael Pauls, ''Provence'', New Holland Publishers, 2004, p. 17/ref> It has been called the ''Champs-Élysées of Marseille''. Toponymy The name 'Canebière' ('Canabiera' in Provençal dialect) comes from the word ''Cannabis'' in Latin, as the area around the Old Port were originally hemp fields and Marseille was one of the world's largest trader of hemp baskets and ropes from the Middle Ages until the 1930s, when other fibers were used instead. History The avenue was built in 1666, when King Louis XIV of France decided to expand the city of Marseille. At the end of the eighteenth century, as the ''Grand Arsenal'' shipbuilding dock was demolished, the avenue was extended down to the Old Port and elegant buildings were built. Only as late as 1928 was it extended from the Old Port t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marseille
Marseille (; ; see #Name, below) is a city in southern France, the Prefectures in France, prefecture of the Departments of France, department of Bouches-du-Rhône and of the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur Regions of France, region. Situated in the Provence region, it is located on the coast of the Mediterranean Sea, near the mouth of the Rhône river. Marseille is the List of communes in France with over 20,000 inhabitants, second-most populous city proper in France, after Paris, with 873,076 inhabitants in 2021. Marseille with its suburbs and exurbs create the Aix-Marseille-Provence Metropolis, with a population of 1,911,311 at the 2021 census. Founded by Greek settlers from Phocaea, Marseille is the oldest city in France, as well as one of Europe's List of oldest continuously inhabited cities, oldest continuously inhabited settlements. It was known to the ancient Greeks as ''Massalia'' and to ancient Romans, Romans as ''Massilia''. Marseille has been a trading port since ancient ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henri François Xavier De Belsunce De Castelmoron
Henri François Xavier de Belsunce de Castelmoron (3 December 1671 – 4 June 1755) was a French Jesuit who served as Bishop of Marseille from 1709 until his death. He is remembered for his tireless efforts to relieve the suffering during the Great Plague of Marseille of 1720–21. Early life He was the second son of Armand de Belsunce, Marquis de Castelmoron, and his wife Anne de Caumont de Lausun. His maternal uncle was courtier and soldier Antoine Nompar de Caumont, Duke of Lauzun. His Huguenot parents thought it more advantageous for him to be raised a Catholic.Jonas, Raymond et al.''France and the Cult of the Sacred Heart'', University of California Press, 2000, p. 36 et seq. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Great Plague Of Marseille
The Great Plague of Marseille, also known as the Plague of Provence, was the last major outbreak of bubonic plague in Western Europe. Arriving in Marseille, France, in 1720, the disease killed over 100,000 people: 50,000 in the city during the next two years and another 50,000 to the north in surrounding provinces and towns. While economic activity took only a few years to recover, as trade expanded to the West Indies and Latin America, it was not until 1765 that the population returned to its pre-1720 level. Pre-plague city Sanitation board At the end of the plague of 1580, the people at Marseille took some measures to attempt to control the future spread of disease. The city council of Marseille established a sanitation board, whose members were to be drawn from the city council as well as the doctors of the city. The exact founding date of the board is unknown, but its existence is first mentioned in a 1622 text of the Parliament of Aix. The newly established sanitation boa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alcazar (Marseille)
The Théâtre de l'Alcazar was a famous theatre, founded in the mid-19th century, that was located in the heart of Marseille's Bourse district, on , near the Canebière. From the 1960s the site was gradually abandoned, before being converted into a municipal library in 2004. History The Théatre de l'Alcazar Lyrique opened its doors on October 10, 1857. Inauguration festivities, attended by the town's notables, lasted two days before the public was admitted. The curiosity and envy of the public, heightened by the admiring comments of celebrities on the quality of the show and the service, gave excellent publicity to the hall, which its operators had no difficulty filling. In keeping with the trends of the time, owner Étienne Demolins chose a "Moorish fantasy" style for his café-concert hall, inspired in particular by the Alhambra in Granada. The theatre was built at great expense on a vast site on Cours Belsunce, behind the Old Port and the Palais de la Bourse, which had be ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
