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    • Friday, 8 September, 2023
      FT SeriesWomen’s fashion special AW23
      Cécile, the Marseille café with model credentials

      Love brought Texan supermodel Erin Wasson to live in the French city – Cécile persuaded her to stay 

      Erin Wasson and her husband Barthelemy Tassy
    • Thursday, 7 September, 2023
      European prime property
      More Parisians make the Marseille connection

      The city’s many attractions — plus being cheaper than the capital to rent or buy a home — are overcoming its gritty reputation

      Aerial view of the Catholic Basilique Notre-Dame de la Garde
    • Friday, 11 August, 2023
      How To Spend It In...
      An insider’s guide to Marseille

      Chef Alexandre Mazzia shares the culinary highlights of his adopted home

      Alexandre Mazzia outside Marseille’s Eglise Saint Laurent
    • Friday, 11 August, 2023
      France
      Police officers charged over death of man in France riots

      Prosecutors say further investigation needed to determine if use of force was proportionate

      Protesters clash with police in July following the death of Nahel Merzouk in Nanterre
    • Wednesday, 3 May, 2023
      ReviewNon-Fiction
      Once Upon A Time World — revelry and wrong-doing on the French Riviera

      Jonathan Miles’ entertaining history of the Côte d’Azur charts the region’s reputation as a ‘sunny place for shady people’

    • Saturday, 21 May, 2022
      ReviewDance
      National Ballet of Marseille celebrates its 50th year with a Paris programme

      A mixed bill at Théâtre de la Ville illustrated the company’s journey into contemporary dance

      A group of dancers wearing gauzy costumes and red socks form a line across a stage, their hands over their mouths as if in shock
    • Thursday, 20 January, 2022
      Urban planning
      How sprawling suburbs are stunting productivity in UK cities

      Weak transport links and low-density housing have made Britain’s urban hubs less pleasant places to live than their EU counterparts

    • Monday, 11 January, 2021
      Disease control and prevention
      EU races to control Covid variant

      France and European neighbours face spread of highly infectious mutation from UK

    • Wednesday, 2 December, 2020
      Travel
      Working from paradise: my escape to the south of France

      One writer on the joys of fleeing winter to become a digital nomad

    • Sunday, 1 November, 2020
      HTSI
      Cult Shop: a landmark hardware-drome in Marseille

      A tool shed on steroids, with a chambre d’hôtes to boot

      The toy department at Maison Empereur
    • Friday, 25 September, 2020
      Coronavirus
      Nations divided as Europe battles to contain virus surge

      Madrid defies restrictions and street protests in France amid rising number of cases

    • Friday, 25 September, 2020
      News in-depthCoronavirus
      Marseille rebels against curbs as city becomes France’s Covid hotspot

      Rising cases raise questions on government pledge to grant local authorities more autonomy on handling coronavirus

    • Monday, 14 September, 2020
      French politics
      French cities act against resurgence of virus

      Bordeaux and Marseille clamp down on socialising and give police new powers to enforce measures

      Travellers leave a metro station at Vieux Port in Marseille, France on Monday
    • Wednesday, 11 March, 2020
      News in-depthFrench politics
      Emmanuel Macron’s party struggles to put down roots in Marseille

      Voters look elsewhere for the promise of renewal at local elections

      Workers walk past an electoral poster of Martine Vassal, member of the French right-wing party Les Republicains (LR) for the Marseille 2020 mayoral election, on January 21, 2020 in Marseille, southern France with the Notre-Dame de la Garde in the background. (Photo by GERARD JULIEN / AFP) (Photo by GERARD JULIEN/AFP via Getty Images)
    • Sunday, 6 October, 2019
      Residential
      Five reasons to live in Marseille, France

      The fast-growing Mediterranean port city offers cultural diversity and affordable living

      Panoramic of Marseilles old port view from St-Jean Fort, France
    • Wednesday, 13 December, 2017
      FT SeriesThe Europopulists
      European politics: leaders struggle to contain rising populism

      In the last of a series, the FT shows how far-right parties are influencing immigration policy even after losing elections

    • Monday, 21 August, 2017
      World
      One dead after car crashes into bus stop in Marseille — local media
    • Tuesday, 18 April, 2017
      World
      French find arms, bomb equipment and Isis flag in Marseille

      Police say ‘imminent’ terror attack thwarted on eve of poll

      French policemen climb stairs in the stairwell of a building on January 12, 2012 at Bassens estate in the northern area of Marseille, southern France, during an operation to fight against narcotics and weapons proliferation in the city. AFP PHOTO / GERARD JULIEN / AFP PHOTO / GERARD JULIEN
    • Monday, 21 November, 2016
      World
      Seven arrested in foiled French terror plot
    • Thursday, 15 September, 2016
      World
      Marseille demonstration
      People take part in a demonstration against the French government's labour law reforms, on September 15, 2016 in Marseille, southern France.  / AFP PHOTO / ANNE-CHRISTINE POUJOULATANNE-CHRISTINE POUJOULAT/AFP/Getty Images
    • Monday, 29 August, 2016
      European companies
      Baseball entrepreneur in talks to buy Marseille football club

      Former LA Dodgers owner Frank McCourt close to €50m deal

      Football Soccer - Olympique Marseille v Lorient - French Ligue 1 - Velodrome stadium, 26/08/2016 Olympique Marseille's Remy Cabella (L) in action against Lorient's Faiz Selemani. REUTERS/Philippe Laurenson
    • Thursday, 23 June, 2016
      World
      Marseille demonstration
    • Tuesday, 14 June, 2016
      World
      Russia fined €150k, faces disqualification from Uefa
    • Monday, 13 June, 2016
      Instant InsightSimon Kuper
      Hooliganism looks a bigger problem on television than in reality Premium content

      Most England fans appear to have been drunk and obnoxious rather than violent, writes Simon Kuper

      ENGLISH AND RUSSIAN FANS CLASH IN MARSEILLE
    • Sunday, 12 June, 2016
      Sport
      Uefa threatens potential disqualification over Euro 2016 violence

      Northern Ireland and Polish fans clash in latest violence

      *** BESTPIX *** MARSEILLE, FRANCE - JUNE 11: An injured England fan is arrested after clashes ahead of the game against Russia later today on June 11, 2016 in Marseille, France. Football fans from around Europe have descended on France for the UEFA Euro 2016 football tournament. (Photo by Carl Court/Getty Images)
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