Histoire de Marseille #2

The second volume of Histoire de Marseille sweeps across centuries of one of France's most storied port cities, carrying readers from the era of the Great Plague through the challenges of the 21st century. The cover sets a beautifully evocative tone: a lone sailboat rests on calm blue waters before Marseille's distinctive skyline, where the golden stone of the historic cathedral and tower glow warmly against a deep twilight sky, a seagull soaring freely above — a quietly stunning image that captures both the city's deep maritime soul and its modern ambitions. Created by Gilbert Buti, Olivier Raveux, and Jean-Marie Cluzin and published by Éditions du Signe in 2013, this is a richly atmospheric journey through a city that has never stopped reinventing itself.