City of Light: The Making of Modern Paris

by Rupert Christiansen and Christiansen

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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 Haussmann, the prefect of the Seine. Haussmann transformed the old medieval city of squalid slums and disease-ridden alleyways into a "City of Light" characterized by wide boulevards, apartment...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:1541673395

ISBN13:9781541673397

Release Date:October 2018

Publisher:Basic Books

Length:224 Pages

Weight:0.67 lbs.

Dimensions:1.0" x 5.2" x 7.6"

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