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Aix-en-Provence Elegant and honey-hued,the old capital of Provence is splashed by a score of fountains - a charming reminder that its very name comes from its waters, Aquae Sextiae. It's sweet water, mind you, with none of the saltiness and excesses of Marseille. For if chaotic Marseille is the great anti-Paris, Aix-en-Provence is the stalwart anti-Marseille - bourgeois, cultured, aristocratic, urbane, slow-paced and convivial. Since 1948, it has hosted France's most elite festival of music and opera, while its 600-year-old university not only teachesthe arts and humanitiestothe French but instructs foreign students in the fine arts of French civilization (the more 'practical'sciencedepartments are in Marseille). If afifth of Aix's 150,000 souls are students, another large percentage are doctors, lawyers and professors,financial and underworld nabobs who commute to Marseille. But as cultured as it is.Aixcan neverquite live down having mocked and laughed at Paul Cezanne.the one real genius it ever produced.