In 1934, King Aleksandar was assassinated abroad, in Marseille, by a coalition of the Ustaše and a similarly radical movement, the Macedonian pro-Bulgarian VMORO.

In an interview with Eurostar's Chief Executive Nicolas Petrovic in the Financial Times in May 2012, an intention for Eurostar to serve ten new destinations was expressed, including Amsterdam, Frankfurt, Cologne, Lyon, Marseille and Geneva, along with a likely second hub to be created in Brussels.

The hijacking was a failure for the terrorist group, known as the GIA after an intervention from the GIGN in Marseille, where the plane was grounded.

Born in southern France, perhaps in Marseille, Anatoli's literary activity was stimulated early by his learned associates and relations at Narbonne and Béziers.

With his fluent French and knowledge of the culture, Frankenheimer was asked to direct French Connection II, set entirely in Marseille.

The first Prolog program, also written in 1972 and implemented in Marseille, was a French question-answering system.

The language was first conceived by a group around Alain Colmerauer in Marseille, France, in the early 1970s and the first Prolog system was developed in 1972 by Colmerauer with Philippe Roussel.

As a young man, Grimoard became a Benedictine monk in the small Priory of Chirac, near his home, which was a dependency of the ancient Abbey of St. Victor near Marseille, and he was sent there for his novitiate.

The first lazaret was founded by Venice in 1403, on a small island adjoining the city ; in 1467 Genoa followed the example of Venice ; and in 1476 the old leper hospital of Marseille was converted into a plague hospital.

) The first act was called for, owing to an alarm, lest plague should be imported from Poland and the Baltics ; the second act of 1721 was due to the disastrous prevalence of plague at Marseille and other places in Provence, France ; it was renewed in 1733 owing to a fresh outbreak of the malady on the continent of Europe, and again in 1743, owing to the disastrous epidemic at Messina.

It was known as jeu marseillais (" game from Marseille "), and was later renamed chausson (" slipper ", after the type of shoes the sailors wore ).

Freight bound for Paris was misdirected to Lyon or Marseille instead.

The king was assassinated in Marseille during an official visit to France in 1934 by an experienced marksman from Ivan Mihailov's Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization with the cooperation of the Ustaše, a Croatian fascist revolutionary organization.

However, when the French troops called by the Pope made clear that the resistance of the Republican troops, led by Garibaldi, was in vain, on July 12, 1849, Mazzini set out for Marseille, from where he moved again to Switzerland.

Charles, in contrast, was disposed towards a rigid administration ; he ordered inquests in 1252 and again in 1278 to ascertain his rights Charles broke the traditional powers of the great towns ( Nice, Grasse, Marseille, Arles, Avignon ) and aroused considerable hostility by his punctilious insistence on enjoying his full rights and fees.

A final rebellion occurred in 1262, when he was absent in France ; Boniface of Castellane rebelled yet again, as did Marseille and Hugh of Baux.

The mediation of James I of Aragon brought about a settlement ; while Marseille was forced to dismantle its fortifications and surrender its arms, it otherwise went unpunished.

The trading post at Grand-Bassam in Côte d ' Ivoire was left in the care of a shipper from Marseille, Arthur Verdier, who in 1878 was named resident of the Establishment of Côte d ' Ivoire.

In addition to the Gauls, there were other peoples living in Gaul, such as the Greeks and Phoenicians who had established outposts such as Massilia ( present-day Marseille ) along the Mediterranean coast.

The first permanent Greek settlement was Massalia, established at modern-day Marseille in about 600 BC by colonists coming from Phocaea ( now Foça, in modern Turkey ) on the Aegean coast of Asia Minor.

In 1432, Jacques Cœur established himself in the city and it became an important economic centre, until 1481 when Marseille overshadowed it in this role.

During this time, the club established itself as the premiere club in France defeating Olympique de Marseille and Paris Saint-Germain and also becoming the country's richest club and one of the most popular.

He established himself in Marseille, but returned to Spain later.

A second long-haul route from Réunion to Marseille and Lyon was established.

He appeared a total of 134 times in the league for Strasbourg, scoring 8 goals, before moving to Marseille in 2003, a move which surprised many as he was a firm favourite at RC Strasbourg and had established himself as a key player there.

His time with Marseille was a successful one where he established himself as one of the most accomplished defenders in France's top tier and was voted the fans ’ Player of the Year in 2006.

; Order of Penitents established by Bernard of Marseille

: The Order of Penitents was a religious order established by Bernard of Marseille about 1272 for the reception into the Roman Catholic Church of reformed courtesans.

Following the occupation of France in August 1940, he went to Marseille as an agent of the newly formed Emergency Rescue Committee in an effort to help persons wishing to flee the Nazis.

From his isolated position in Marseille, Varian Fry relied on the Unitarian Service Committee in Lisbon to help the refugees he sent.

Miriam Davenport went to see if she could get help for their escape through the port city of Marseille, which although under control of the Vichy Regime, was not yet occupied by the Nazis.

* 20 July 2004 – Chelsea pay a club record £ 24million for Ivorian striker Didier Drogba from Olympique Marseille and also sign midfielder Tiago from Benfica for £ 8million.

" You can pay me back by getting fifty victories, Marseille!

After working his passage on a French ship and being refused entry to Syria, Turkey and Italy, he landed in Marseille where he made his way to Geneva in Switzerland – then something of an anarchist centre.

Ferries also leave regularly from Quai L ' Herminier on the west side of the gulf for Porto Torres, Marseille, Toulon and Nice.

* Mars, slang for Marseille, as popularised by the French hip hop group IAM

By the clause in the Levant Trade Act of 1752 vessels for the United Kingdom with a foul bill ( i. e. coming from a country where plague existed ) had to repair to the lazarets of Malta, Venice, Messina, Livorno, Genoa or Marseille, to perform their quarantine or to have their cargoes sufficiently opened and aired.

Following his discharge, Paris left San Francisco for Marseille, where he started spending his time drinking and playing pool in Sandrine's, a waterfront bar.

In July 1943 Georges Commeinhes had reached a depth of 53 metres off Marseille equipped with his GC42 breathing apparatus (" G " for Georges, " C " for Commeinhes and 42 for 1942 ).

His episcopal see, near the mouth of the Rhone River and close to Marseille, retains its ancient importance in social and commercial life of Gaul for forty years.

Marseille held out until July 1252, but then sued for peace.

President Kruger first went to Marseille and then on to The Netherlands where he stayed for a while before moving finally to Clarens, Switzerland, where he died in exile on 14 July 1904.

He set out for France, consecrating the cathedral of Pisa on the way, and arrived at Marseille in October.

The film went on to win the prestigious Rockie Award for Best Arts Documentary at the Banff World Television Festival ( 2002 ) and the Coup de Coeur at the International Sunnyside of the Doc Marseille ( 2002 ).

Maximian flees to Marseille and is captured for his crimes.

Though the song was originally written by a citizen of Strasbourg, Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle in 1792, and it was originally a war song for the revolutionary Army of the Rhine, it became famous when it sung on the streets of Paris by the volunteers from Marseille, who had heard it when it was sung in Marseille by a young volunteer from Montpellier named François Mireur.

A large quarter around the port of Marseille was emptied of inhabitants and dynamited, so it would not serve as a base for the resistance.

With the building of new highways, particularly the Paris Marseille autoroute which opened in 1970, Provence became destination for mass tourism from all over Europe.

Pierre Paul Puget ( 1620 – 1694 ), born in Marseille, was a painter of portraits and religious scenes, but was better known for his sculptures, found in Toulon Cathedral, outside the city hall of Toulon, and in the Louvre.

There is mountain named for him near Marseille, and a square in Toulon.