tu Ves moqué de moi^ you hâve outwitted me

15. — 14. Marseille y Massilia, Marseilles ; a city of France, capital of the department of Bouches du Rhônes, the most important seaport of the republic, situated on the Gulf of layons. Founded by the Phœnitians about 600 b. c. , Marseilles served as a refuge for thfem from the vengeance of Cyrus. Its progress was rapid and almost without interruption. It soon became the entrepôt for ail the surrounding countries, founded many colonies, was celebrated for the cultivation of letters and arts, and of ten acted as an independent republic. In 735 A. d. , it f ell into the hands of the Saracens, in the loth century came under the dominion of the counts of Provence, and in 1481 was united to the crown of France by Louis XI. Population about 325,000.