In the 19th Century George-Eugène Haussmann completely redesigned and rebuilt the French capital. Jonathan Glancey describes how the city of today was born. Paris remains one of the world’s most ...
Cramped, unsanitary living conditions and the use of gutters for sewage in Paris exacerbated large-scale cholera outbreaks throughout the 1830s and ’40s. In 1853, Napoleon III ordered the prefect of ...
The notorious city planner for Napoléon III, and prefect of the Seine region, Baron Georges-Eugène Haussmann turned Paris from a still medieval urban area to a triumphant imperial city—Haussmann makes ...
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