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Paris, city of dreams : Napoleon III, Baron Haussmann, and the creation of Paris  Cover Image Book Book

Paris, city of dreams : Napoleon III, Baron Haussmann, and the creation of Paris / Mary McAuliffe.

Summary:

"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).
Subject: Napoleon III, Emperor of the French, 1808-1873 > Influence.
Haussmann, Georges Eugène, baron, 1809-1891 > Influence.
Napoleon III, Emperor of the French, 1808-1873.
Paris.
Urban renewal > France > Paris > History > 19th century.
Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
Manners and customs.
Urban renewal.
Städtebau.
Paris (France) > History > 1848-1870.
Paris (France) > Social life and customs > 19th century.
France > Paris.
Genre: History.

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