Wicked City
Wicked City Marseille is a thoroughly ambiguous place. Yet it is also a frontier city, arguably capital of the Mediterranean, and with a traditionally suspect allegiance to the French nation.…
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Wicked City
Marseille is a thoroughly ambiguous place. Yet it is also a frontier city, arguably capital of the Mediterranean, and with a traditionally suspect allegiance to the French nation. France's second city and its major sea-port, its impact on the national imagination is unparalleled.
The narratives devoted to this great port city range from the legend of its football team to The Count of Monte Cristo. This apartness, and the city's long and rich history as home to migrants, workers and organized criminals, has cemented its association in the popular imagination with exoticism and illicit activity.In this history, Nicholas Hewitt explores Marseille's extraordinary cultural wealth from the Revolution to the present century, charting the development of its bad reputation, its 'rogue status' within France, and its international importance. Hewitt discovers Marseille through the