It has tribunals of first instance and of com merce, training colleges, a communal college, a museum and a library; the three latter are established in the Palais Fesch, founded by Cardinal Fesch, who was born at Ajaccio in 1763.
The name (Merce) seems to denote men of the March, and presumably was first applied when this district bordered upon the Welsh.
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