Campagne Pastré
Sprawling park around a nineteenth-century shipowner's mansion of pink brick and pale stone.
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This guide to Campagne Pastré in Marseille traces the shipping fortune of five Pastré brothers, who founded a trading house after their father's death in 1821 and built an empire moving cotton, wheat and Suez Canal equipment between Egypt, China, India and West Africa. It follows the profits into this château, finished by shipowner Eugène Pastré in 1862 from Marseille brick and Arles stone, and the family's decline after a financial crash in Alexandria. Later, Lily Pastré, who married into the family and brought her own fortune from the Noilly Prat vermouth house, put the estate to a very different use during the Nazi occupation.
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