Paris Reborn: Napoléon III, Baron Haussmann, and the Quest to Build a Modern City
- ISBN-10
- 0312626894
- ISBN-13
- 9780312626891
- Series
- Paris Reborn
- Category
- History
- Pages
- 327
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2013-04-02
- Publisher
- Macmillan
- Author
- Stephane Kirkland
Description
Documents the phenomenal mid-19th-century transformation of Paris through which the Louvre Palace was expanded, the Notre-Dame Cathedral was restored and the Opéra Garnier was built, citing the contributions of such figures as Napoleon III and George-Eugène Haussmann. 25,000 first printing.
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