Paris Reborn
Kirkland, Stephane
In the mid-nineteenth century, the Paris we know today was born, the vision of two extraordinary men, the endlessly ambitious Emperor Napoleon III and his unstoppable accomplice Baron Haussmann. Paris was transformed in an extraordinary period from 1848 to 1870, when the government launched a huge campaign to build streets, squares, parks, churches, and public buildings. This is the vivid and engrossing account of the greatest transformation o...