Marseille

Who is recorded here

• Maximian death · AD 310
• John Cassian death · AD 435
• Salvian death · AD 470

What happened here

• Cassian founds the two monasteries at Marseille AD 415
• Salvian writes On the Government of God AD 440
• Gennadius continues Jerome's catalogue AD 480

In art

• The Landing in Marseilles (Sketch for the Medici Cycle) — Peter Paul Rubens (1622)
• Inside Marseille Harbor — Joseph Vernet (1754)
• The Port of Marseille — Joseph Vernet (1754)
• Vue de Marseille : Joute et fête sur l'eau — Charles Eschard (1791)
• Meeting of Francis I and Pope Clement VII in Marseilles on 13 October 1533 — Charles-Philippe Larivière (1837)

About the place

Marseille is a city in southern France, the prefecture of the Bouches-du-Rhône department and of the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region. Situated in Provence, it marks the eastern end of the Côte Bleue on the Mediterranean coast.

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