Paris, City of Dreams: Napoleon III, Baron Haussmann, and the Creation of Paris 9781538121290, 2019045561, 9781538121283

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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Paris Dreams, Paris Memories: The City and Its Mystique 9780804777513

A clear-eyed exploration of the world's most glamorous city as a historical composite of several different Parises,

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Napoleon III and the Rebuilding of Paris 9780691196732, 0691196737

In the two decades between 1850 and 1870 Napoleon III and his Prefect of the Seine, Baron Haussmann, created the modern

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Napoleon III and the Rebuilding of Paris 9780691196732

In the two decades between 1850 and 1870 Napoleon III and his Prefect of the Seine, Baron Haussmann, created the modern

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Paris: The ‘New Rome’ of Napoleon I 9781472593085, 9781441135186

Napoleon I employed a myriad of media through which to promote his propaganda and his universal hegemony. Classical Rome

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The Heroic City: Paris, 1945-1958 9780226870175

The Heroic City is a sparkling account of the fate of Paris’s public spaces in the years following Nazi occupation and j

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Fashioning the City: Paris, Fashion and the Media 9780755697342, 9781845118976

While much attention has been paid to the making of Paris in the work of writers and artists, little is known about the

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Tales of Two Cities: Paris, London and the Birth of the Modern City 161902263X, 9781619022638

Paris and London have long held a mutual fascination, and never more so than in the period 1750–1914, when they vied to

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The Parlement of Paris 9780750918305

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Paris: Secret Gardens, Hidden Places, and Stories of the City of Light 1538173336, 9781538173336

Follow in the footsteps of history to discover the hidden places, extraordinary people, and captivating stories of Paris

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