Acknowledgements

I would like to thank the individuals and institutions who contributed to this study, including:

The project management:

• The city of Aix-en-Provence, represented by the Direction des musées et du patrimoine culturel, its director Michel-Edouard Bellet and its collaborator Karine Vaudoit.

The technical and financial partner:

The Direction régionale des affaires culturelles de Provence-Alpes-Côte-d'Azur (DRAC PACA), represented by Hélène Riblet, advisor for architecture and protected spaces and Sylvie Denante, her assistant.

Individuals and institutions consulted for the purposes of the study.

• Claudine Brohon-Cahour, archivist at the Municipal Archives of the city of Aix-en-Provence.
• Mister Nicolas Mémain, "Concrete Bear Showman".
• Mrs Emmanuelle Reimbold, head of the architectural archives at the Departmental Archives of the Bouches-du-Rhône, centre of Marseille.
• Fadila Tahouati, head of the UFR Library for Geographical Sciences and Planning at the University of Provence.