My Marseille, by Jonathan Meades

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Francis le Belge, Joël le Turc, Philippe le Dingue,  Jacky Le Mat are, alas, no longer with us. Tony l’Anguille, having spent 28 of his 84 years in jail, has retired to the backwoods. These caïds – mob bosses – belonged to, perhaps created, a mythic Marseille. Their less picaresque successors, Maghrebian adolescents tooled up with AK‑47s, do not share their…