Château Pastré
Pink-brick nineteenth-century bastide that sheltered persecuted artists at a lavishly fed wartime table.
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This guide to Chateau Pastre in Marseille centers on Countess Lily Pastre, heiress to the Noilly-Prat vermouth fortune, who kept a full nightly dinner table for twenty-five people through the hardship of the 1940s occupation. It follows the composers, painters and musicians she sheltered under an association with a defiant name, including the pianist Clara Haskil and harpist Lily Laskine, fed and housed entirely at the countess's expense while most of France lived on ration cards.
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