Paris, city of dreams : Napoleon III, Baron Haussmann, and the creation of Paris / Mary McAuliffe.
"Traces the profound transformation of the City of Light during Napoleon III's Second Empire, as he and Georges Haussmann completely rebuilt Paris in less than two decades."-- Provided by publisher.
Record details
- ISBN: 9781538121283
- ISBN: 153812128X
- Physical Description: xii, 329 pages : illustrations, map ; 23 cm
- Publisher: Lanham, Maryland : Rowman & Littlefield, an imprint of The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, Inc., [2020]
Content descriptions
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | From Barricades to Bonaparte (1848-1851) -- Blood and Empire (1852) -- Enter Haussmann (1853) -- A Nonessential War (1854) -- A Queen Visits (1855) -- What Goes Up . . . (1856-1857) -- More and More (1858) -- Dreams of Glory (1859) -- Suddenly Larger (1860) -- Turning Point (1861) -- Les Misérables de Paris (1862) -- Scandal (1863-1864) -- Death and Taxes (1865) -- Crisis (1866) -- A Setting Sun (1867) -- Twenty Years Later (1868) -- Haussmann in Trouble (1869) -- Finale (1870) -- An End and a Beginning (1870-1871). |
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