Paris, city of dreams: Napoleon III, Baron Haussmann, and the creation of Paris 9781538121283, 9781538121290, 153812128X

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

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Paris, city of dreams: Napoleon III, Baron Haussmann, and the creation of Paris
 9781538121283, 9781538121290, 153812128X

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).

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