The quartier Mazarin is a district in the centre of

Aix-en-Provence Aix-en-Provence (, , ; oc, label= Provençal, Ais de Provença in classical norm, or in Mistralian norm, ; la, Aquae Sextiae), or simply Aix ( medieval Occitan: ''Aics''), is a city and commune in southern France, about north of Marseille. ...

, directly to the south of the cours Mirabeau, the principal boulevard in Aix. On the initiative of

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Michel Mazarin Michele Mazzarino, or Mazzarini, also known as Michel Mazarin, ( Pescina, 1 September 1605 – Rome, 31 August 1648) was an Italian Cardinal and statesman in the service of France. Early life Mazzarino was born in Pescina, Italy, then part of t ...

, brother of the Cardinal Jules Mazarin and Archbishop of Aix from 1645-8 and later himself a cardinal, city plans were devised in 1646 by Jean Lombard, director of public works, to extend the city ramparts to the south, incorporating land owned by the Archbishopric of Aix and by the Order of Saint-Jean-de-Malte. Following a

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of streets, the quartier contains a large number of '' hôtels particuliers'' originally built for the nobility and wealthy merchant class.

History

Notable monuments, buildings and residents

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Cours Mirabeau (south side)

Hôtel d'Esmivy de Moissac The Hôtel d'Esmivy de Moissac (a.k.a. Hôtel de Villars) is a listed hôtel particulier in Aix-en-Provence, Bouches-du-Rhône, France. Location It is located on the corner of the Cours Mirabeau and the Avenue Victor Hugo, in the centre of Aix-en ...

*Maison de Vacon *Hôtel d'Isoard-Vauvenargues *Former Benedictine monastery *

Hôtel Raousset-Boulbon The Hôtel Raousset-Boulbon (a.k.a. Hôtel Fauris de Saint-Vincens) is a listed hôtel particulier in Aix-en-Provence. Location It is located at number 14 on the Cours Mirabeau in Aix-en-Provence. History It was built in 1660 for Honoré de Ras ...

(Hôtel Fauris de Saint-Vincens) *Hôtel de Mougins-Roquefort *Hôtel de Meryronnet Saint-Marc * Hôtel de Forbin * Hôtel de Gueydan *Hôtel d'Entrechaux *Hôtel Courtès * Hôtel Maurel de Pontevès (Hôtel d'Espagnet) * Hôtel de Suffren *Hôtel Saint-Ferréol *Hôtel Gassendi *Hôtel de Perrin

Rue Mazarine

*Hôtel de Ribbe *Hôtel de Marignane *Hôtel de Guillebert de la Lauzière

Rue Goyrand

*Hôtel de Lagoy *Hôtel de Tressemanes *Hôtel de Félix du Muy *

Hôtel de Gallifet Hôtel de Gallifet is an 18th-century Hôtel Particulier located in the Quartier Mazarin of Aix-en-Provence in France. Today, it serves as a contemporary art center for the public. It is located at 52 rue Cardinale in the Mazarin district of Aix- ...

Hôtel de Simiane The Hôtel de Simiane (a.k.a. "Hôtel de Grignan Simiane") is a listed hôtel particulier in Aix-en-Provence. Location It is located at number 17 on the ''Rue Goyrand'' in the Quartier Mazarin of Aix-en-Provence. History It was designed by arch ...

Rue Fernand-Dol

*Hôtel de Bonnet de la Baume

Place Saint-Jean-de-Malte

Church of Saint-Jean-de-Malte Church may refer to: Religion * Church (building), a building for Christian religious activities * Church (congregation), a local congregation of a Christian denomination * Church service, a formalized period of Christian communal worship * Chris ...

* Musée Granet

Rue Cardinale

*Hôtel d'Agay *Hôtel de Joursanvault *Former Convent of the Pères de la Merci *Chapelle des Andrettes *Lycée Mignet : Émile Zola was a boarder at the Lycée Mignet (then the Collège Bourbon) from 1852 until 1858. There as an adolescent he formed a close friendship with

Baptistin Baille Baptistin Baille was born as Jean-Baptiste Baille in France, in 1841 and he died in 1918. He was a professor of optics and acoustics at the École de Physique et de Chimie Industrielles in Paris and a close friend of Paul Cézanne, the impressionist ...

and

Paul Cézanne Paul Cézanne ( , , ; ; 19 January 1839 – 22 October 1906) was a French artist and Post-Impressionism, Post-Impressionist painter whose work laid the foundations of the transition from the 19th-century conception of artistic endeavour to a ...

. Following the death of his father François Zola in 1847 and the subsequent collapse of his canal company in 1853, reduced means forced his mother to seek more modest accommodation in Aix. They lodged twice in the quartier Mazarin: briefly in 1853-1854 at 8 rue Roux-Alphéran (at the time rue Longue-Saint-Jean); and in 1857-1859 at 2 rue Mazarine, where Zola spent the summers of 1858 and 1859 in the small set of attic rooms.

Rue Roux-Alphéran

*Former home of

Ambroise Roux-Alphéran Ambroise Roux-Alphéran (1776–1858) was a French public official and historian. Biography Early life Ambroise(-Thomas) Roux-Alphéran was born on 29 December 1776 in Aix-en-Provence. Career He served as clerk of the court of Aix-en-Provence u ...

*Hôtel de Boisseulh *Hôtel de Castillon *

Hôtel Silvy The Hôtel Silvy (a.k.a. the Hôtel Ripert de Monclar or the Hôtel Bourguignon de Fabregoules) is a listed hôtel particulier in Aix-en-Provence. Location It is located at number 35 on the ''rue Roux Alpheran'' in the Quartier Mazarin of Aix-en-P ...

(Hôtel Ripert de Monclar) *Hôtel Sallier

Rue Sallier

Rue Peysonnel

Rue Laroque

Rue Joseph-Cabassol

* Hôtel de Caumont

Rue du Quatre-Septembre

*Academy of Science, Agriculture, Arts and Letters of Aix *Hôtel de Saizieu *

Hôtel de Villeneuve d'Ansouis The Hôtel de Villeneuve d'Ansouis is a listed hôtel particulier in Aix-en-Provence. Location It is located at number 9 on the rue du 4 septembre in the Quartier Mazarin of Aix-en-Provence.Monique Cubells, ''La Provence des lumières: les parleme ...

*Hôtel d'Olivary * Hôtel de Boisgelin *Hôtel de Pigenat *Hôtel de Valori

Place des Quatre-Dauphins

*Fontaine des Quatre-Dauphins

Rue Frédéric-Mistral

*Former home of Frédéric Mistral

Rue d'Italie

*Hôtel de Garidel-Thoron *Outbuildings of Church of Saint-Jean-de-Malte *Former site of Church of Nôtre-Dame-de-la-Pitié and Hospital of St John of Jerusalem

Rues Maréchal-Joffre, Pavillon, Clovis-Hugues, Petit-Saint-Esprit, Saint-Joseph

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External links

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office de tourisme.

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