Honoré de Marseille

Honoré de Marseille
Directed by	Maurice Régamey
Produced by	Jacques Bar
Written by	Jean Manse
Starring	Fernandel
Music by	Henri Betti
Cinematography	Walter Wottitz
Release date	1956
Running time	80 min
Country	France
Language	French

Honoré de Marseille is a 1956 French comedy film by Maurice Régamey.

The story begins in the year 600 BC. BC with the landing in a calanque of a Phocéenne galley commanded by the warrior Honoris who, married after a mistake to the daughter of the Ligurian king, will found the city of Marseille. Honor the first Marseilles gives way to Honorius to tell us the hero-comic adventures of the siege of Marseille by the legions of Julius Caesar, which will lead to the invention of the petanque. It is through successive leaps over the centuries, and in songs, that Honoré tells us the history of the city of Phocea.

The song C'est Noël was sung in a scene that was cut at the editing. It was later sung by Tino Rossi and Georges Guétary.

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