Napoleon III and the Rebuilding of Paris / / David H. Pinkney.
In the two decades between 1850 and 1870 Napoleon III and his Prefect of the Seine, Baron Haussmann, created the modern city of Paris out of the congested and ill-equipped capital of the 18th century. They gave Paris many of its present major streets, its great municipal parks, the Central Markets,...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2019] ©1958 |
| Year of Publication: | 2019 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Princeton Legacy Library ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (280 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- PREFACE
- CONTENTS
- ILLUSTRATIONS
- I. PARIS IN 1850
- II. THE PLAN AND THE MEN
- III. FROM PLANS TO PAVEMENTS
- IV. BUILDINGS AND PARKS
- V. A BATTLE FOR WATER
- VI. PARIS UNDERGROUND
- VII. THE CITY GROWS
- VIII. MONEY AND POLITICS
- IX. PARIS IN 1870 AND AFTER
- BIBLIOGRAPHY
- INDEX
- Other Titles of Interest Also Available in Princeton and Princeton/Bollingen Paperbacks