Transforming Paris: The Life and Labors of Baron Haussman - David P. Jordan - Google Books

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The Paris we know today, with its grand boulevards, its bridges and parks, its monumental beauty, was essentially built in only seventeen years, in the middle of the nineteenth century. In this brief period, whole neighborhoods of medieval and…