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City of Light: The Making of Modern Paris
City of Light The Making of Modern Paris
Author: Rupert Christiansen
A sparkling account of the nineteenth-century reinvention of Paris as the most beautiful, exciting city in the world — In 1853, French emperor Louis Napoleon inaugurated a vast and ambitious program of public works in Paris, directed by Georges-Eug?ne Haussmann, the prefect of the Seine. Haussmann transformed the old medieval city of squalid slum...  more »
ISBN-13: 9781541673397
ISBN-10: 1541673395
Publication Date: 10/9/2018
Pages: 224
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Publisher: Basic Books
Book Type: Hardcover
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