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Haussmann
Haussmann, Baron Haussmann, the famous architect of modern Paris, has been an enigma for historians for more than a century. But in Michel Carmona, the baron has found a biographer worthy of his fascinating and influential life. Haussmann is not, however, a book o, Haussmann has a rating of 4.5 stars
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  • Haussmann
  • Written by author Michel Carmona
  • Published by Dee, Ivan R. Publisher, January 2002
  • Baron Haussmann, the famous "architect" of modern Paris, has been an enigma for historians for more than a century. But in Michel Carmona, the baron has found a biographer worthy of his fascinating and influential life. Haussmann is not, however, a book o
  • Mr. Carmona sets the life of Baron Haussmann, the famous architect of modern Paris, against the background of nineteenth-century European society. He looks at the problems of urban existence faced by the city of Paris and shows how the controversial baron
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Part IA Dedicated Administrator
1The Prince, Paris, Haussmann5
2Haussmann Before Haussmann13
3Subprefect in the Age of the Bourgeois King31
4The End of Louis-Philippe's Reign46
5First Steps in the Second Republic52
6Prefect for the Var72
7From Auxerre to Bordeaux88
Part IIParis, the City with all the Problems
8The Frenetic Growth of a Capital113
9The Splendor and the Squalor126
10The Transformation of Paris: The Curtain Rises, 1849-1853149
Part IIIPrefect for the Seine
11Paris Gets a New Prefect169
12Haussmann in Control192
13Friends and Enemies205
14The First New System216
15Imperial Festivities246
16The 180-Million-Franc Agreement281
17Incorporation of the Suburban Communes and the Third System308
18Financial Difficulties340
19The Lion Grown Old368
Part IVHaussmannization
20The Ends and the Means385
21Modern Infrastructures396
22Public Buildings407
23The Golden Age of Real Estate417
24"An Epoch in the History of City Planning"432
AppendicesMaps of Paris440
Chronology446
Notes467
Bibliography477
Index491


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