Urban History Review, March 1st, 1997
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 to be its master. The city, of course, was Paris, its would-be master, Baron Georges-Eug,ne Haussmann. In truth he was no Baron, but between 1859 and 1869 he was most certainly the city's top administrative officer. Formally the Prefect of the Seine, informally he was called the "vice-emperor" because...
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