Messageries Maritimes, or in full, 'La Compagnie des Services Maritimes des Messageries,' a great French shipping company of Mar- seilles, its headquarters, trading with the Levant and Black Sea, with eastern Asia and Australia, by way of the Suez Canal, and with Spain and Algiers.
Messageries Maritimes
Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 7: Maltebrun to Pearson, p. 148
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