City of light : the making of modern Paris /
In 1853, the French emperor Louis Napoleon inaugurated a vast and ambitious program of public works, directed by Georges-Eugène Haussmann, the prefect of the Seine. Haussmann's renovation of Paris would transform the old medieval city of squalid slums and disease-ridden alleyways into a "C...
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Bibliographic Details
| Main Author: |
Christiansen, Rupert
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| Format: | Book
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| Language: | English |
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| Published: |
New York :
Basic Books,
[2018]
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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