Château de la Buzine
Restored nineteenth-century château turned Mediterranean cinema hub, once a wartime ruin.
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This guide to Chateau de la Buzine in Marseille opens with a boyhood humiliation: a young Marcel Pagnol turned away from these gates by an angry gatekeeper. Decades later the celebrated filmmaker bought the estate outright in 1941, with an ambitious plan for what the property should become. German troops requisitioned the château within a year, and it later filled with Polish officials and then Spanish refugees before falling into ruin.
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