La Préfecture des Bouches du Rhône

  • Historic site and monument
  • Historic patrimony
  • Neo-Classical
1 Place de la Préfecture 13006 Marseille 6ème
In October 1861, Napoleon III appointed Senator Charlemagne-Emile de Maupas as head of the department, with orders to modernize Marseille.
The Prefecture, located since the First Empire in the Hôtel Roux de Corse (now the Lycée Montgrand), is too small for a city of great importance.

Maupas decided to build a new 7500m2 building, facing the rue Saint-Ferréol. The building was in the form of a quadrilateral and was organized around two courtyards: a semi-circular main courtyard and a rectangular courtyard housing the stables. The plans and specifications were approved by the General Council in February 1862.

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La Préfecture des Bouches du Rhône
1 Place de la Préfecture 13006 Marseille 6ème
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