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Baron Haussmann

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Biography of Baron Georges Eugène Haussmann
473 words, approx. 2 pages
Baron Georges Eugène Haussmann (1809-1891), as French prefect of the Seine, carried out under Napoleon III a huge urban renewal program for the city of Paris. During the administration of Baron Haussmann, 71 miles of new roads, 400 miles of...


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Baron Haussmann Information
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Georges-Eugène Haussmann (March 27, 1809 – January 11, 1891), who called himself Baron Haussmann, was a French civic planner whose name is associated with the rebuilding of Paris. He was born in Paris to a Protestant family from...


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Urban History Review
Transforming Paris: the life and labors of Baron Haussmann.
03/01/1997: 784 words, approx. 3 pages
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1995. Pp. xxii, 455. Maps, illustrations, photographs, index. $17.95 (paper). This is a splendid book, splendidly conceived, researched, written, and packaged. Fittingly, it is a book about the intersection between an unsuspecting city and a man determined...
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The Virginia Quarterly Review
Haussmann, or the Distinction
04/01/2002: 131 words, approx. 1 pages
Haussmann, or the Distinction, by Paul LaFarge. Truly an original and engrossing novel, LaFarge's story combines historic realism with compelling, if not entirely sympathetic, characters. The scene for this inventive narrative is Paris in the mid-19th century, when Napoleon III gave Baron Haussmann...
 


 

Baron Haussmann

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