Marseilles

Marseilles, third city and first seaport of France, on the shore of the Gulf of Lyons, 27 m. E. of the mouth of the Rhône; has extensive dock accommodation; does great trade in wheat, oil, wine, sugar, textiles, and coal, and manufactures soap, soda, macaroni, and iron; there is a cathedral, picture-gallery, museum, and library, schools of science and art; founded by colonists from Asia Minor in 600 B.C., it was a Greek city till 300 B.C.; after the days of Rome it had many vicissitudes, falling finally to France in 1575, and losing its privilege as a free port in 1660; always a Radical city, it proclaimed the Commune in 1871; a cholera plague devastated it in 1885; six years later great sanitary improvements were begun; Thiers and Puget were born here.

Population (circa 1900) given as 321,000.

Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)

Marseillaise, The * Marshal Forwards
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Maroons
Marot, Clement
Marprelate Tracts
Marque
Marquesas Islands
Marrow Controversy
Marryat, Frederick
Mars
Mars
Marseillaise, The
Marseilles
Marshal Forwards
Marshall, John
Marston, John
Marston, John Westland
Marston, Philip Bourke
Marston Moor
Marsyas
Martello Towers
Martens, Frederick de
Martensen, Hans Lassen

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