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In 1853 the French emperor Louis Napoleon inaugurated a vast and ambitious programme of public works, directed by Georges-Eugène Haussmann, the prefect of the Seine. Haussmann's renovation of Paris would transform the old medieval city of squalid slums and disease-ridden alleyways into a 'City of Light' characterised by wide boulevards, apartment blocks, parks, squares and public monuments, new railway stations and department stores and a new system of public sanitation.
City of Light charts a fifteen-year project of urban renewal which despite the interruptions of war, revolution, corruption and bankruptcy would set a template for nineteenth and early twentieth-century urban planning and create the enduring and globally familiar layout of modern Paris.
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PRAISE FOR PARIS BABYLON:
'This really is an impressive book' Sebastian Faulks. --Sunday Telegraph
'A wonderful book, amazingly vivid ... but also a truly original work of scholarship'. --Theodore Zeldin
About the Author
Rupert Christiansen is the opera critic and arts columnist for the Daily Telegraph. His books include Tales of the New Babylon: Paris in the Mid-19th Century and Romantic Affinities: Portraits From an Age 1780-1830. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 1997.
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- PublisherHead of Zeus
- Publication date2018
- ISBN 10 1786694549
- ISBN 13 9781786694546
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages184
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