City of Light: The Making of Modern Paris by Rupert Christiansen

City of Light: The Making of Modern Paris

Rupert Christiansen

224 pages first pub 2018 (editions)

nonfiction history travel informative medium-paced
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A sparkling account of the nineteenth-century reinvention of Paris as the most beautiful, exciting city in the world In 1853, French emperor Louis Napoleon inaugurated a vast and ambitious program of public works in Paris, directed by Georges-Eug...

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