s eɪ / ; also Marseilles in English; French pronunciation:  [maʁsɛj] ; locally [mɑχˈsɛjɐ] ; in Occitan Marselha or Marsiho [maʀˈsejɔ, maʀˈsijɔ] ), known in antiquity as Massalia (from Greek : Μασσαλία ), [ 1 ] is the second largest city in France, after Paris , with a population of 852,395