Marché des Capucins

This guide to the Marche des Capucins in Marseille traces its origins back twenty-six centuries, to Greek sailors from Phocaea who arrived in the cove that became Marseille, and the legend of Gyptis choosing the trader Protis with a cup of wine. It follows the ground's later turn as a Capuchin friary, founded in 1579 on land bought by Catherine de Medici, through the Revolution that emptied it and the market that grew where the friars once worked. Listen for the mix of French, Arabic, Comorian, Italian and Senegalese voices bargaining over fish and citrus today.