Place de Lenche, the old Agora?

Place de Lenche, 13002 Marseille
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Place de Lenche, the old Agora?
Category: Squares, Streets & Neighborhoods / Remarkable Places
Borough : 2ème
Today it is a charming little square in the Cart with its restaurants, cafes and his theater and his highly prized perspective on the Good mother…but in Greek times, it is possible that the agora of the Massaliotes was located in this place, which made it the nerve center of the Greek city.

Moreover, the rue Caisserie which in an ancient world was called the Voie Décumane, and which was the main axis of Marseille traffic, ended in the place de Lenche. In the XNUMXth century, Saint Cassien founded a convent of nuns called de Saint-Sauveur which was devastated in the XNUMXth century by the Saracens. According to legend, the nuns cut off their noses following the example of their abbess Sainte Eusebie in order to horrify the invaders. They were nicknamed the “desnarados”. Of this convent only the cellars of Saint-Sauveur whose exact destination has been much debated; these would be food storage cells. To the east of this square was the magnificent private mansion which was built by the Mirabeau family and which housed Louis XIV when he came to Marseilles in 1660. This building was demolished at the end of the XNUMXth century. The name of this place comes from the Lenche family (Linciu, which is pronounced “linʃiu”), of Corsican origin, who settled in Marseille and built a mansion on this place in the XNUMXth century. Thomas Lenche creates the Magnificent Coral Company which, from the Bastion of France in Algeria, operates commercial links between North Africa and Marseille.

His nephew, Antoine Lenche took the side of the royalists during the wars of religion; elected second consul, he was assassinated in 1588.

Eight acerifolia vallis clausa type plane trees were planted between 8 and 6 meters in height on November 7, 20. The hybrid variety is resistant to the micro-fungus Ceratocystis platani, responsible for the color canker disease that is decimating plane trees in Provence. It was a question of replacing the maple weakened by the rehabilitation works of the place and uprooted by the Mistral, as well as 2013 other trees (including 7 almost century-old plane tree) felled in May 1 under the "precautionary principle". The operation had then put the neighborhood in turmoil, but since then it has found beautiful vegetation and its shade. We find on this place of Lenche a monument signed Oscar Eichacker. This bronze bust dated 1951 pays tribute to Henri Tasso, born in Marseille on October 8, 1882 and died in Allauch on February 12, 1944, politician, mayor of Marseille from May 1935 to March 1939.

SOURCES Wikipedia Place de Lenche & Médiapart
PHOTOS Dominique Milherou Tourism-Marseille.com & Archives
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