Henri Messerer was from the city that is the capital of which department of France?
Marseille:  The capital of the Bouches-du-Rhône department and Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region, Marseille, on France's south coast, is the country's second largest city, after Paris, with a population of 852,516 in 2012, and an area of 241 km2 , the 3rd-largest metropolitan area in France after Paris and Lyon.
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