Paris Reborn Napolï¿½on III, Baron Haussmann, and the Quest to Build a Modern City

Name: Paris Reborn Napolï¿½on III, Baron Haussmann, and the Quest to Build a Modern City
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ISBN: 9780312626891

ISBN-10: 0312626894

ISBN-13: 9780312626891

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Authors: Stephane Kirkland

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An engrossing account of Napoleon III, Baron Haussmann, and one of the greatest transformations of a major city in modern history Traditionally known as a dirty, congested, and dangerous city, Paris was transformed in an extraordinary period from 1848 to 1870, when the government launched a huge campaign to build streets, squares, parks, churches, and public buildings. The Louvre Palace was expanded, Notre-Dame Cathedral was restored and the masterpiece of the Second Empire, theOpéra Garnier, was built. A very large part of what we see when we visit Paris today originates from this short span of twenty-two years.The vision for the new Paris belonged to Napoleon III, who had led a long and…

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List price: $29.99
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Publication date: 4/2/2013
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 336
Size: 6.50" wide x 9.75" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 1.144
Language: English



Prologue



In the Shadow of Versailles



A World of Change



A Dreamer in the Industrial Age



The Prince-President and the City



A New Empire



The Man for the Job



Eviscerating with Glee



The Empire Builds



Celebrating the New City



A Landscape of Ruins



The 180 Million Franc Treaty



The New City Emerges



An Expanded Capital and a New Monument



An Embattled Prefect



Razing the Cradle of Paris



The Beginning of the Fall



Glamour and Decay



The Last Fight



Capital of a Republic


Epilogue


Acknowledgments


Endnotes


Index