You definitely can't compare Marseilles and Lyons.

They thought Marseilles was the capital city of France.

Did you think Marseilles was the capital city of France?

I was born on March 3rd, 1996 in Marseille, France.

The distance from Amsterdam to Marseille is 1.01 Mm.

It is used in Tarot card games as well as divination.

In 1816 the young Daumier and his mother followed Jean Baptiste to Paris.

Employment Unemployment in the economy fell from 20 in 1995 to 14 in 2004.

From 1950 to the mid 1990s, Marseille was a socialist and communist stronghold.

4th century BC), was a Greek geographer and explorer from the Greek colony of Massalia (modern day Marseille).

MARSEILLE Many Greek philosophers perceived the world to be in perpetual motion a process of constant evolution.

The Marseille region is home to thousands of companies, 90 of which are small businesses.

However, in the early 2000s, the growth in container traffic was being stifled by the constant strikes and social upheaval.

Olivier Émile Ollivier ( 2 July 182520 August 1913) was a French statesman.

Marseille was then used by the Duke of Anjou as a strategic maritime base to reconquer his kingdom of Sicily.

Trading in Marseille also flourished as the Guild began to establish a position of power within the merchants of the city.

The socialist Gaston Defferre was consecutively re elected six times as Mayor of Marseille from 1953 until his death in 1986.

Mazzini believed that a popular uprising would create a unified Italy, and would touch off a European wide revolutionary movement.

Geography Location Ajaccio is located on the west coast of the island of Corsica, southeast of Marseille.

Jean Nicolas Arthur Rimbaud ( or 20 October 1854 10 November 1891) was a French poet born in Charleville, Ardennes.

In Marseille, Francescoli played for only one season when he grabbed the attention of an important fan Zinédine Zidane.

An extensive network of motorways connects Marseille to the north and west (A7), Aix en Provence in the north (A51), Toulon (A50) and the French Riviera (A8) to the east.

Whilst waiting for confirmation of this post, Napoleon spent time as inspector of coastal fortifications on the Mediterranean coast near Marseille.

The wedding, a grand affair marked by extravagant display and gift giving, took place in the Église Saint Ferréol les Augustins in Marseille on 28 October 1533.

Paul Mauriat ( or 4 March 1925 3 November 2006) was a French orchestra leader, conductor of Le Grand Orchestre de Paul Mauriat, who specialized in the easy listening genre.

Maxime Rodinson ( 26 January 1915, Paris 23 May 2004, Marseilles) was a French Marxist historian, sociologist and orientalist.

There are ten major ports in France, the largest of which is in Marseille, which also is the largest bordering the Mediterranean Sea.

It was voted, to extend the sport's popularity, the 2008 World Cup would take place in Marseille, France, and the 2009 World Cup would take place in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.

Jean Louis Barthou ( 25 August 1862 9 October 1934) was a French politician of the Third Republic who served as Prime Minister of France for eight months in 1913.

Honoré Daumier ( February 26, 1808 February 10, 1879) was a French printmaker, caricaturist, painter, and sculptor, whose many works offer commentary on social and political life in France in the 19th century.

The cantons of Marseille Marseille is also divided in 25 cantons, each of them returning a member of the General Council of the Bouches du Rhône département.

The Neolithic brought changes to the human landscape of Iberia (from the 5th millennium BC onwards), with the development of agriculture and the beginning of the European Megalith Culture.

Issue Catherine de' Medici married Henry, Duke of Orléans, the future Henry II of France, in Marseille on 28 October 1533.

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

I felt sick in the sea we stopped in Genoa, Italy where I remember the cemetery, and that they kept us for five days in the ship in Marseille, France

Towards the end of the 16th century, Marseille suffered yet another outbreak of the plague the hospital of the Hôtel Dieu was founded soon afterwards.

AOC Bellet at the time of the French Revolution, the little town of Saint Roman de Bellet (now part of Nice) was the center of an important wine region.

Modern Syracuse, Naples, Marseille and Istanbul had their beginnings as the Greek colonies Syracusae (Συρακούσαι) , Neapolis (Νεάπολις) , Massalia (Μασσαλία) and Byzantion (Βυζάντιον) .

An unidentifiable body wearing French uniform was found several days after his disappearance, east of the Frioul archipelago south of Marseille, and buried in Carqueiranne in September.

A century later more troubles were in store King Louis XIV himself had to descend upon Marseille, at the head of his army, in order to quash a local uprising against the governor.

This period in Marseille's history is reflected in many of its monuments, such as the Napoleonic obelisk at Mazargues and the royal triumphal arch on the Place Jules Guesde.

Marseille was united with Provence in 1481 and then incorporated into France the following year, but soon acquired a reputation for rebelling against the central government.

Marseille became a naval base for the Franco Ottoman alliance in 1536, as a Franco Turkish fleet was stationed in the harbour, threatening the Holy Roman Empire and especially Genoa.

Éric Daniel Pierre Cantona ( born 24 May 1966) is a French actor and former international footballer for the French national team.

In terms of spending, Mourinho carried on where his predecessor Claudio Ranieri left off, as, bankrolled by Roman Abramovich, he spent in excess of 70 million in transfer fees on players such as Tiago ( 10 million) from Benfica, Michael Essien ( 24.4 million) from Olympique Lyonnais, Didier Drogba ( 24 million) from Olympique de Marseille, Mateja Kežman ( 5.4 million) from PSV, and Porto pair Ricardo Carvalho ( 19.8 million) and Paulo Ferreira ( 13.3 million).