The MM Iraquaddy Under Full Steam…But Where?

I’ve made a few references over the years to the great French shipping line Messageries Maritimes (MM) who regularly sailed from China to Marseilles and also ran ships around French Indo-China (for instance, here’s an MM related post). So here’s a picture I came across recently of the MM Iraquaddy. And a fine old girl she is too under full steam. I assume Iraquaddy to be a French corruption of the River Irrawaddy in Burma. Here’s what’s driving me crazy though – can anyone tell me which river frontage that is behind the Iraquaddy? It’s not Shanghai sadly. It looks French, or at least the buildings to the far left do and the central building looks like a railway station (also French like I think – at least it reminds me of the old Gare d’Orsay, now the Musee d’Orsay in Paris on the Seine) but I don’t know Marseilles well enough.

Any experts that can tell me where the Iraquaddy was when this picture was taken?