Built in only 17 years in the middle of the 19th century, the Paris we know today was chiefly the work of one man, Baron Georges Haussmann, Napoleon III's Prefect of the Seine. Jordan shows how the single-minded and autocratic Haussmann imprinted rational order and bourgeois civility on the unruly city that had for so long simmered with riot and insurrection. Photos; maps.
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Built in only 17 years in the middle of the 19th century, the Paris we know today was chiefly the work of one man, Baron Georges Haussmann, Napoleon III's Prefect of the Seine. Jordan shows how the single-minded and autocratic Haussmann imprinted rational order and bourgeois civility on the unruly city that had for so long simmered with riot and insurrection. Photos; maps.
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