Cities of the World: Their Origin, Progress, and Present Aspect, Volume 2Edwin Hodder Cassell & Company, 1886 |
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Page 156
... Marseilles the products of the East . In the eleventh and twelfth centuries silk became an important article of trade . The union of Marseilles to France , in the seventeenth century , favoured its commercial prosperity . The era of ...
... Marseilles the products of the East . In the eleventh and twelfth centuries silk became an important article of trade . The union of Marseilles to France , in the seventeenth century , favoured its commercial prosperity . The era of ...
Page 162
... Marseilles built a convent and this church about the year 1285. It was rebuilt in 1651 . Of the many other churches in Marseilles only a few more must be mentioned , and that very briefly . St. Martin is a mixture of architecture of ...
... Marseilles built a convent and this church about the year 1285. It was rebuilt in 1651 . Of the many other churches in Marseilles only a few more must be mentioned , and that very briefly . St. Martin is a mixture of architecture of ...
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... Marseilles was , in the days of John Howard , the prison philanthropist , one of the deadliest pest - houses , and therefore one of the places he was most anxious to visit , as it was then the most important establishment of its kind in ...
... Marseilles was , in the days of John Howard , the prison philanthropist , one of the deadliest pest - houses , and therefore one of the places he was most anxious to visit , as it was then the most important establishment of its kind in ...
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CaliforniaSir Francis DrakeThe Spanish GalleonsThe Franciscan MissionsIndians Converted and Dying | 1 |
Plan of San Francisco | 9 |
The City Hall | 16 |
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