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Author McAuliffe, Mary Sperling, 1943- author.

Title Paris, city of dreams : Napoleon III, Baron Haussmann, and the creation of Paris / Mary McAuliffe.

Publication Info. Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield, [2020]
Bookmark link: https://library.naperville-lib.org:444/record=b2013817~S1
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 Nichols Adult Nonfiction  944.36107 MCA    AVAILABLE
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Description xii, 329 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 313-317) and index.
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).
Summary "Traces the profound transformation of the City of Light during Napoleon III's Second Empire, as he and Georges Haussmann completely rebuilt Paris in less than two decades."-- Provided by publisher.
Subject Paris (France) -- History -- 1848-1870.
Urban renewal -- France -- Paris -- History -- 19th century.
Napoleon III, Emperor of the French, 1808-1873 -- Influence.
Haussmann, Georges Eugène, baron, 1809-1891 -- Influence.
Paris (France) -- Social life and customs -- 19th century.
Added Title Napoleon III, Baron Haussmann, and the creation of Paris
ISBN 9781538121283 (cloth)
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