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440 meters long and 42 meters wide, the Cours Mirabeau is one of the most popular and lively places in the town. It is lined with many cafés, one of the most famous being Les Deux Garçons and during its history frequented by famous French cultural figures such as Paul Cézanne, Émile Zola and Albert Camus.

The street has wide sidewalks planted with double rows of plane-trees. The Cours Mirabeau is decorated by fountains, the most notable of which is La Rotonde, a large fountain that makes up a roundabout at one end of the street. The street also divides Aix into two portions, the Quartier Mazarin, or "new town", which extends to the south and west, and the Ville comtale, or "old town", which lies to the north with its wide but irregular streets and its old mansions dating from the 16th, 17th and 18th centuries.

From 1646 onwards, rich locals started moving into the Mazarin quarter, built by Michele Mazzarino (1605 - 1648), known as "Michel Mazarin", the Dominican who was appointed Archbishop of Aix-en-Provence in 1645 by Pope Innocent X. Mazzarino had been professor of theology at the College of Saint Thomas, the future Pontifical University of Saint Thomas Aquinas, Angelicum in Rome, and Master of the Sacred Palace under Pope Urban VIII in 1642. Mazzarino was also the brother of Giulio Mazzarino, known as "Jules Mazarin" who served as chief minister under Louis XIV of France.

In 1650, the Provence Parliament commissioned the building of a thoroughfare for carts where there was a crumbled rempart. The idea was for it to become the new place of dalliance for Aix dwellers, instead of the place des Prêcheurs.

The thoroughfare cost 100,000 pounds, and was paid for by property buyers, the town (15,000 pounds), Provence communes (20,000 livres) and the Duke of Vendôme, Louis de Mercœur.

A long enclosure closed off by remparts, town houses were gradually built on each side. A balustrade would look to fields and gardens downwards.

By 1696 four fountains had been built : Fontaine des 9 canons, Fontaine "Moussue, Fontaine du Roi René and, to the west, "les Chevaux-Marins", now vanished.

Whilst he first thought of building a palace there, the Duke of Vendôme came around and decided on the 'wildness of fields'. Instead he commissioned the Pavillon Vendôme, where he died in 1669. His son, Louis Joseph de Vendôme, sold their part of the Cours Mirabeau back to Pierre de Creissel, who sold it again to four buyers, thus dividing it into four town houses.

In 1876, Mac-Mahon signed a decree for it to be named after Honoré Gabriel Riqueti, comte de Mirabeau.

[ Source: Wikipedia - Cours Mirabeau ]

Vijzelgracht - Amsterdam (Netherlands) by Perry Tak

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Vijzelgracht 11/11/2016 13h55

Thru the city, with my eyes closed...

More AmsterdamPeople (album with candid and non-candid shot of people in Amsterdam)

Place de l'Hôtel de Ville - Paris (France) by Perry Tak

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Place de l'Hôtel de Ville 10/09/2015 16h52

"Embrasse-moi soleil, embrasse-moi..."

ParisPeople (more candid and non-candid street shots of people made in Paris)

Stadionplein - Amsterdam (Netherlands) by Perry Tak

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Stadionplein 10/03/2022 15h04

Hairy side up, rubber side down...

More AmsterdamPeople (album with candid and non-candid shot of people in Amsterdam)

Paris 20ème - Paris (France) by Perry Tak

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PA_132 [30 points]

A re-activated runner from which I have never seen the original. Good this classic space invader is back.

Other view:

PA_132 (Zoom-iun, July 2016)

Date of invasion (the original): 17/12/1998

DELETED ? (1998 - 2004)

RE-ACTIVATED March 2016

Je crois que j'ai fait un bon match by Delgoff.

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Mais il faut que je travaille mon coup droit.

Escalator, Stan Smith, rouge by Max Sat

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aj by JAE WON LEE

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Pont Marie - Paris (France) by Perry Tak

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Pont Marie | Quai d'Anjou 10/08/2015 17h29

Gaming dans le soleil d'après-midi...

ParisPeople (more candid and non-candid street shots of people made in Paris)

Place de la République - Paris (France) by Perry Tak

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Place de la République 19/03/2014 18h27

Une clobe et un coup de fil...

ParisPeople (more candid street shots made in Paris)

Straat Museum - Amsterdam (Netherlands) by Perry Tak

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Straat Museum Amsterdam 22/10/2020 12h45

Lost in a street art museum.

Several works.

Staat Museum Amsterdam

STRAAT is a street that goes cross borders, from Amsterdam to New York, from São Paulo to Tokyo. But it’s also a street that goes across boundaries: it reunites under the same roof the variety of styles, shapes, techniques and narratives of the largest art movement of our times. Our collection is made of artworks as big as buildings, which were created here. In a former shipyard that is, by itself, a national monument. [ www.straatmuseum.com ]

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