City of Light: The Reinvention of Paris by Rupert Christiansen, Rupert Christiansen

City of Light: The Reinvention of Paris

Rupert Christiansen, Rupert Christiansen

208 pages first pub 2019 (editions)

nonfiction history dark informative medium-paced
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In 1853 the French emperor Louis Napoleon inaugurated a vast and ambitious programme of public works, directed by Georges-Eugène Haussmann, the prefect of the Seine. Haussmann's renovation of Paris would transform the old medieval city of squalid ...

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