Napoleon III and the Rebuilding of Paris /
In the two decades between 1850 and 1870 Napoleon III and his Prefect of the Seine, Baron Haussmann, created the modern city of Paris out of the congested and ill-equipped capital of the 18th century. They gave Paris many of its present major streets, its great municipal parks, the Central Markets,...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Princeton :
Princeton University Press,
2019.
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| Series: | Princeton legacy library.
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| Online Access: | CONNECT |
