Paris, City of Dreams traces the transformation of the City of Light during Napoleon III's Second Empire into the b
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English Pages xii, 329 pages : illustrations, map ; 23 cm Year 2020
Table of contents :
From Barricades to Bonaparte (1848-1851) --
Blood and Empire (1852) --
Enter Haussmann (1853) --
A Nonessential War (1854) --
A Queen Visits (1855) --
What Goes Up . . . (1856-1857) --
More and More (1858) --
Dreams of Glory (1859) --
Suddenly Larger (1860) --
Turning Point (1861) --
Les Misérables de Paris (1862) --
Scandal (1863-1864) --
Death and Taxes (1865) --
Crisis (1866) --
A Setting Sun (1867) --
Twenty Years Later (1868) --
Haussmann in Trouble (1869) --
Finale (1870) --
An End and a Beginning (1870-1871).