The rue Mignet, named after one of Aix's most famous historians, sets off on a straight, gentle, uphill slope from the palatial Courthouse (Palais de Justice) to the Place Bellegarde - where once stood the massive town gateway (porte Bellegarde) - in preparation for an abrupt take-off toward Sisteron, and the Alps. The Place des Prêcheurs, named after the Dominican convent next to the Eglise de la Madeleine "catty-cornered" from the courthouse, was for many years (15th century) a favorite stroll for Aixois "in the king's - good king René's - garden". Its charm, diluted by the presence, and frequently sollicited gallows, lost its appeal in the seventeenth century in favour of the Cours Mirabeau ; the good king's garden - and gallows - being replaced by Aix's most colorful and fragrant institution, le marché (flowers, fruits and fleas):Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday mornings.

Note : Cézanne's last residence, N° 23 rue Boulegon - the chapel of the Visitation of Saint-Mary (1647) founded by the grandmother of Madame de Sévigné, today named Chapelle Sainte-Catherine - the splendiferous Hôtel de Valbelle, late seventennth century, at no's 22-24, rue Mignet, presently occupied by the sub-prefecture of the Department of the Bouches du Rhône.