Marseille
About Marseille
Marseille is a city in southern France, the prefecture of the department of Bouches-du-Rhône and of the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region. Situated in the Provence region, it is located on the coast of the Mediterranean Sea, near the mouth of the Rhône river. Marseille is the second-most populous city proper in France, after Paris, with 886,040 inhabitants in 2023 over a municipal territory of 241 km2 (93 sq mi). Together with its suburbs and exurbs, the Marseille metropolitan area, which extends over 3,972 km2 (1,534 sq mi), had a population of 1,900,957 at the January 2022 census. The cities of Marseille, Aix-en-Provence, and 90 suburban municipalities have formed since 2016 the Aix-Marseille-Provence Metropolis, an indirectly elected metropolitan authority now in charge of wider metropolitan issues, with a population of 1,922,626 at the January 2022 census.
On the show — 18 mentions total
The last duel to happen in France happened after the first seven Beatles albums were released. There was a mayor of Marseille and another politician called René Ribier. It was in 1967, it was filmed — they fought with swords in a private house.
from 498: No Such Thing As Internal Eyebrows, 2023-09-28 at 00:39:35 · read transcript
Other times Marseille came up
In 1900, in the grand exhibition, this, oh, this sounds so good. The Mariorama. It's a me. Define the princess. It was amazing. 700 people got on the platform. Then you would sail from Marseille to Yokohama. A huge long voyage. I don't know how it revolved or moved around you. That's mostly sea, I would think. It's all sea. Oh yeah, sorry, it's a complete sea voyage.
No Such Thing As An Average Bucket, 2023-02-02 · listen
Maybe a lot of that was the same people. A huge claim just on the kind of last hurrah of the panorama, the 1900 grand exhibition. They got they got really, really fancy. Basically, they built and built and built and there were all these that were called Rama shows. There was the Daya Rama, there was the Alparama, the Cosmarama, Europarama, Neorama, Futurama. It's developed.
464: No Such Thing As An Average Bucket, 2023-02-03 · listen
Was a dog called saucisse and part of the rules were you had to have a secret and all your the housemates had to work out what your secret was and saucisse's secret was that he once ran for the mayor of marseille and did he spill it on the first day did they have to work out what the secret was did you say yeah they had to work out each other's secrets that is absolutely impossible to work out from what the dog's.
337: No Such Thing As A Triangular Rectangle, 2020-09-04 · listen
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