Maison du chemin de Paradis

[5][6] A committee was to be appointed for the administration of his personal archives, correspondence, books, deluxe edition manuscripts, family pictures, portraits and memories of friends, furniture, academic insignia, civic crown, volumes of political propaganda.

[6] This library is an important fund because it includes many books dedicated by André Gide, Malraux, Anatole France, Paul Valéry or Joseph Kessel.

The "mur des Fastes" (wall of splendors) was built in 1944 on the instructions of Maurras although he never saw the finished work due to his incarceration at the end of the Second World War.

Inscriptions in capital letters on the wall summarize the history of Martigues:Six hundred years before our era, according to the testimony of Strabo, Aristarchè, priestess of Diana of Ephesus, accompanied the Phocaean colonists to Gaul: her monument was found in Martigues cent two years before our era, according to Plutarch, the consul Marius fighting the Teutons took the prophetess Martha to his camp.

The King of France Charles IX came to Martigues to prepare the union of our cities, Jonquières, the Island, Ferrières, and entrusted him with the tricolor Captain Pierre Bouquier defended our tower of goat against the imperials.

His cousin the abbot of Régis dedicated to him a ship cut in the rock, a large building without movement which cost him a lot of money.

Joseph-Scipion Sinisbaldi, known as Pistoye, forty times consul, deputy of Martigues in the last states of Provence was master of this garden.A bust of Charles Maurras made by the architect and sculptor Henry Bernard, Grand prix de Rome, is installed in front of "mur des Fastes".

[2] In accordance with Maurras' last wishes, his heart is separated from his body and buried in the garden of Martigues while his remains join his grave in Roquevaire.

During the final ceremony in the garden, the priest of Ferrières blesses the heart deposited, then Victor Rolland pays homage to the Martégal on behalf of the guild of fishermen of Martigues.

[7][2] Indeed, the communist newspaper La Marseillaise maintains that "the validity of the will is questionable, it being specified that it emanates from a person sentenced to life imprisonment who could not, at that time, freely dispose of his property".

[2] It was finally on September 27, 1997, that the communist mayor Paul Lombard accepts the bequest from the hands of Jacques Maurras, nephew of the former owner.

[2] The town hall is required to "perpetuate the property complex, garden and building, and maintain the library" and to preserve its concept of "writer's house".

Marie-Pélagie Maurras, born Garnier, mother of Charles Maurras .
In the foreground, a bust of Charles Maurras made by the architect and sculptor Henry Bernard , Grand Prix de Rome. In the background, the "Mur des fastes" recounts the glories of Martigues over the centuries.
The carditaphe of Charles Maurras in the center. Two verses of Frédéric Mistral from Mirèio (1859) are written in Provençal : « The sea, beautiful turbulent plain, - Of paradise is the avenue ».