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Marseilles
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synonyms: Massalia ???
tags: [geography]
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Definition:France's second most populated city, located on the Mediterranean coast.
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in order to have the whole mail-coach reserved for them as far as Marseilles, where they would buy a carriage, and go on thence without stopping to Genoa.
Gustave Flaubert. Madame Bovary.
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it was perfectly acceptable, from the French government's point of view, for slaves to be auctioned to the highest bidder in the markets of Senegal and then shipped to the Caribbean to labor in the fields of Haiti, as long as such scenes were not to be found in Paris or Marseille or any other French city.
Thomas J. Craughwell. Thomas Jefferson's Crème Brûlée, pp.43-4 (2012)
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Orr had been knocked down into the water again while Yossarian was still in the hospital and had eased his crippled airplane down gently into the glassy blue swells off Marseilles, [...].
Joseph Heller. Catch-22, p.307 (1961)
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Most of the children were shipped out of Marseilles, and about half of them drowned in shipwrecks. The other half got to North Africa where they were sold.
Through a misunderstanding, some children reported for duty at Genoa, where no slave ships were waiting.
Kurt Vonnegut. Slaughterhouse-Five (1968)
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Business had taken Herbert on a journey to Marseilles.
Charles Dickens. Great Expectations (1861)
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