Transforming Paris: The Life and Labors of Baron Haussmann by David P. Jordan

Transforming Paris: The Life and Labors of Baron Haussmann

David P. Jordan

504 pages first pub 1995 (editions)

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The Paris we know today, with its grand boulevards, its bridges and parks, its monumental beauty, was essentially built in only seventeen years, in the middle of the nineteenth century. In this brief period, whole neighborhoods of medieval and rev...

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