Mazargues
Sign in to savethumb|right|Street sign thumb|right|Rue Émile-Zola, with the Église Saint Roch, Marseille|Eglise Saint Roch in the background Mazargues () is a former village and now a neighbourhood of the 9th arrondissement in Marseille, Bouches-du-Rhône, France.
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- Population
- 17011
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- 1320904
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- Mazargues
- postal code
- 13009
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thumb|right|Street sign thumb|right|Rue Émile-Zola, with the Église Saint Roch, Marseille|Eglise Saint Roch in the background Mazargues () is a former village and now a neighbourhood of the 9th arrondissement in Marseille, Bouches-du-Rhône, France.
==History== Françoise-Marguerite de Sévigné (1646–1705), a French aristocrat, had a bastide in Mazargues. On February 5, 1703, in a letter to Mrs de Coulanges, he described it in those terms: "You only see people who live until a hundred years old; there are no illnesses; the good air and good water make it the realm of health and beauty. In this area, you only see pretty faces, only good-looking men, and old people just, like young people, have the most beautiful teeth in the world. If ever there are people who come close to those of Telemachus, it is those of Mazargues."
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