As for the Passage des Folies Bergères that the Passage de Lorette crosses, it was built in 1866 by the architects Pierre Hilaire Curtil and Eric Buron. From 1867 to 1868 a casino moved there on the ground floor. From 1874 to 1880 the Folies Bergères music hall took place. In 1878 the latter was rented to host the third national workers' congress (a first version of the socialist party was then created). From 1883 to 1988 it was transformed into the Palace of Industry. In 1998, it became the Carnot garage, a multi-level car park in operation until 2010 before a sports hall opened its doors in 2016. The Passage des Folies Bergères is one of the 35 degraded urban centers targeted by the “Grand centre-ville” development operation entrusted to Soleam since 2010.
In this street lived Pierre de Libertat, assassin of Charles de Casaulx born in Marseilles on March 20, 1547 who was captain of the bourgeois militia of Marseilles.
He took the head of the leaguers, seized power in the city in February 1591 and imposed a “dictatorship marking the temporary defeat of the local merchant aristocracy. ". He was first consul from 1591 to his assassination in 1596. Of Corsican origin (Calvi), Pierre Libertat, the assassin of Charles de Casaulx was born in Marseilles in September 1562. During the wars of religion, he took the side of the most intransigent Catholics. In 1591 he helped Charles de Casaulx to seize City Hall. He was appointed captain of the Blanquerie district, then of the Real door. After the abjuration of Henri IV, the position of Charles de Casaulx is more and more precarious, which forces him to seek support from the King of Spain. Charles I of Guise, governor of Provence, who wants to take Marseille, manages to bribe Libertat who assassinates Charles de Casaulx on February 17, 1596, while he was surrounded by a dozen bodyguards.
The men of Libertat and the people follow the movement, and open the gates of the city to the troops of the governor. As a reward, he will receive the title of viguier in perpetuity, the income from a salt loft, a credit of 160 ecus, command of the Porte Réale and Fort Notre-Dame, and finally customs duties on the richest foodstuffs. . He did not benefit from these advantages for long because he died on April 000, 11 at his home located rue de Lorette. He will have a grand funeral.
His statue sits in the Borely Park
