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Thursday, December 16, 2010
A Little Duck's House That's a Cosy Place for People Too
Owned by Steffi and Youssef, a German-Egyptian couple, La Maison du Petit Canard (yes, it does mean "The Little Duck's House") is tucked away at the end of a small pedestrian alley on the edge of Marseille's Panier (Old Town), a short walk from the Old Port. The four rooms, each occupying a floor in one of the Panier's traditional steep, rickety, narrow houses, are studio apartments named after characters in Marcel Pagnol's Marius-Fanny-César trilogy. Click here to read more.
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Marseille
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