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MARSEILLE ORIENT GATE

MARSEILLE ORIENT GATE. The railing of the Chanot Park where the colonial exhibition took place in 1906 and 1922. On each side of the monumental staircase of the Marseille station, which was inaugurated in 1925, we can see statues which call back the colonial past: so,we can read :.

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MARSEILLE ORIENT GATE

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  1. MARSEILLE ORIENT GATE

  2. The railing of the Chanot Park where the colonial exhibition took place in 1906 and 1922

  3. On each side of the monumental staircase of the Marseille station, which was inaugurated in 1925, we can see statues which call back the colonial past: so,we can read :

  4. Marseille Orient Gate

  5. Marseille Greek colony

  6. One statue is dedicated to the colonies of Asia

  7. One statue is dedicated to the colonies of Africa

  8. A beautiful fountain representing 4 continents (except Europe) through a typical colonial statuary of the beginning of 20 th century.

  9. On the famous avenue called Canebière the caryatides representing continents decorate the facade of an ancient hotel built in the 19th century. We recognize easily Africa.

  10. The building of stock exchange, inaugurated in 1860 is an important place for trade (particularly with the colonies).

  11. Next to there, on a square, if we raise eyes and look at the facade of building, we can see 6 emblems representing six cities of North Africa Alger,Oran,Bône,Tunis, Tanger and Rabat.

  12. The front wall of the ancient seat of the shipping company established in 1836 and belonging to the Fraissinet family.

  13. The seat of the CFAO (French Company of West Africa) established in Marseille in 1887, and which dealt in foodstuffs and regular consumption such as groundnuts, cocoa, tobacco and alcohol.

  14. In 1903, the Health Service of colonies (established in 1860) becomes the Health Service of the colonial troops. The creation of a training school of the service is necessary : as decided in 1905, the school open its doors in 1907 in Marseille. Nowadays, it is the place of the Institute of Tropical medicine of the health service of the Army.

  15. The war memorial called « Orient Gate » is dedicaded in to the colonial soldiers who died fighting for France.

  16. The song Touareg

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