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marseille

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Marseille (English ; , locally: ; Provençal Marselha ), also known as Marseilles in English, is a city in France . The capital of the Bouches-du-Rhône department and Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region , Marseille, on France's south coast, is the country's ...

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Once this had happened, the royal veto was duly applied, setting off violent demonstrations in Paris and other centers of anticlericalism like Lyon and Marseille.

But Marseille is a sprawling Sodom-on-Sea, complete with bidonville and race riots, a city of medieval confusion, where the only thing properly organized is crime.

Personally, I would have fired the rogue on the spot, but the theatre manager insists footlight skills are hard to find here in Marseille, and who knows?

The Marseillais, the rabble army who had poured out of the dockyards and prisons of Marseille and Genoa, and marched on Paris, were everywhere.

The lead F-14 had flown back in front of him and turned to the left again, but the 747 was still descending in a straight line for Marseille, undeterred, as the request for immediate shootdown authority was once again flashed to the President.

Monique Dutourd kept noticing Lizards on the streets of Marseille as she bicycled to work.

When Monique Dutourd had fled down into the bomb shelter below her brother's flat, Marseille, like all of France, had belonged to the Greater German Reich.

Rome, like Marseille and other focal points, is a centre for every major intelligence network including Africa, South America and Japan.

The little girl who had Iced out at her fleet of ships through the dirty apart-window in Marseille had moved on to the largest in the world.

I have also spoken with a local agent here, cousin and friend to our agent in Marseille, and he is instructed to ask for the box.

On that day, bedridden from a recent operation, she heard the news on the radio that agents of the Croatian Ustashe had murdered the head of the Serbian royal house, King Alexander I Karageorgevitch, after he had arrived in Marseille for a state visit.