Maison du chemin de Paradis, Historical bastide in Martigues, France.

Maison du chemin de Paradis is a three-story structure built with stones salvaged from a former church and surrounded by cypress trees positioned above an old mill. The building displays typical bastide characteristics with a compact form and locally sourced materials.

Built in the 16th century, the bastide is said to have used stones from the former Church of the Island. It passed by inheritance to Marie-Pélagie Garnier, Charles Maurras's mother, in 1881. The facades and roofs were listed as a monument historique on 2 September 1975.

Maurras moved his Paris library here to make the house "the heart of a great writer's house", planning a centre of free literary and historical studies for gifted young people. The 12,000 volumes include books dedicated by André Gide, Malraux, Anatole France, Paul Valéry and Joseph Kessel. He also intended the collection to become a "people's library".

The property can be viewed from the exterior, with the surrounding cypress trees and the mill location below providing clear orientation. For detailed historical information, visitors should consult local heritage organizations or archives in the region.

The Wall of Splendors was built in 1944 on Maurras's instructions, but he never saw it finished: he was imprisoned at the end of the Second World War. Its capital-letter inscriptions trace Martigues's history, from the priestess Aristarchè to the bailiff de Suffren. A bust of Maurras by Henry Bernard stands before it, set on a merlon or fountain mascaron from Saint-Blaise.