Musée Grobet-Labadié

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The Grobet-Labadie Museum is a Marseille museum with collections belonging to a very rich Marseille family. This museum is located in the mansion built in 1873, opposite the Longchamp Palace, on the plans of architect Gabriel Clauzel for Alexandre Labadié (1814-1892), who was not only a rich industrialist and merchant, but was also prefect of Bouches-du-Rhône, president of the General Council and deputy. Marie, the only daughter of Alexandre Labadié, first married Paul Vayson's brother, Bruno Vayson, a notable owner of several castles and mayor of Murs.

After her widowhood in 1896 she remarried with Louis Grobet, her music teacher and painter, who died in 1917 of the Spanish flu. From 1873 to 1917 she travelled Europe successively with her first and second husband looking for works of art. His wealth and those of his husbands allowed him to acquire more than seven thousand pieces to furnish his private hotel.

After the death of her second husband, without a child, she decided to donate her life to the city of Marseille by act of 19 October 1919 of the family collection as well as the mansion of the 19th century...