Map of Aix-en-Provence, around the rue Mignet

Sites
56	Place des Prêcheurs
57	Eglise de la Madeleine
58	Place des trois Ormeaux
59	Rue des Epinaux
60	Chapelle Ste Catherine Chapelle de la Visitation
61	Hôtel de Valbelle Sous-préfecture
	Hôtel particulier

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, No.23 rue Boulegon - the chapel of the Visitation of Saint Mary (1647) founded by the grandmother of Madame de Sévigné, today named Chapelle Ste 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.