The word 'marseille' is correct and can be used in written English.
It is the name of a city in the south of France. Example: I've always wanted to visit Marseille and walk along its beautiful Mediterranean coastline.
It's not Marseille culture".
Arsenal have been handed a daunting task to qualify for the Champions League knockout phase after the draw placed them in Group F with last season's runners-up, Borussia Dortmund, Rafael Benítez's Napoli and Marseille.
"Eh bien oui," he said in perfectly accented Mediterranean French that could have come from Marseille, "ça c'est la mosquée des Roumis.
Pleasure ships sailed from Marseille to watch the bombardment and the beach landings.
"The people in Marseille are authentic," says Olivier Vinet, a man in his 40s who runs a software company but this afternoon is taking in the sunshine at a café terrasse in the old port.
I went to Marseille, however, because it prides itself on its reputation in France as an unforgivingly working-class city with no time for pretension, the opposite of Parisian snobbery and elitism.
A short distance from here is the Bar des Sports, where fans are gathering for the big match tonight: Olympique de Marseille versus Evian in the French premier league.
For all its bourgeois trappings, Lyon was then, and is now, a pretty violent place – far nastier, in my experience, than Marseille.
Nice may be the unofficial capital of the Côte d'Azur but it tends to get overshadowed by its noisy, glamorous neighbour Cannes – and more recently Marseille, which is European Capital of Culture 2013.
Either way, the French Connection grew ever more powerful and finally the stuff of myth and movies (the best of which is French Connection II, where Gene Hackman plays a dissolute New York cop at war with the Marseille gangsters).
Moore played an important part in restoring Wallaby scrummaging pride in the 2008 victory over England at Twickenham, 12 months after the Australian scrum suffered again at the hands of England in the World Cup quarter-final defeat in Marseille.
