The street name "rue du Petit Chantier" is a legacy of the shipyard, known at the time as « l’Isle de Roze ».

Upon his return to Marseille, Louis XIV made him a Knight in the Order of Saint-Lazare, and bestowed him a 10,000 pound rent.

He was tasked with maintaining the port infrastructure, checking and protecting commerce, as well as sanitary policies in the face of frequent epidemics.

He also had five large mass graves dug out, converted La Corderie into a field hospital, and organised distribution of humanitarian supply to the population.

On 16 September 1720, Roze personally headed a 150-strong group of volunteers and prisoners to remove 1200 corpses in the poor neighbourhood of the Esplanade de la Tourette.

[1] The name of Roze was given in his honour to In 1886, a bronze bust by Jean-Baptiste Hugues (1849-1930) was installed on Esplanade de la Tourette.