Haussmann: His Life and Times, and the Making of Modern Paris

by Carmona, Michel

• ISBN13: 9781566634274
• ISBN10: 156663427X
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2002-05-01
• Publisher: Natl Book Network

Summary

Exhaustively researched and written with remarkable balance, the book is a much a social and political history of ninteenth-century European society as it is a biography.

Author Biography

Michel Carmona is professor of geography and town and country planning at the Sorbonne in Paris.

Table of Contents

A Dedicated Administrator
The Prince, Paris, Haussmann	p. 5
Haussmann Before Haussmann	p. 13
Subprefect in the Age of the Bourgeois King	p. 31
The End of Louis-Philippe's Reign	p. 46
First Steps in the Second Republic	p. 52
Prefect for the Var	p. 72
From Auxerre to Bordeaux	p. 88
Paris, the City with all the Problems
The Frenetic Growth of a Capital	p. 113
The Splendor and the Squalor	p. 126
The Transformation of Paris: The Curtain Rises, 1849-1853	p. 149
Prefect for the Seine
Paris Gets a New Prefect	p. 169
Haussmann in Control	p. 192
Friends and Enemies	p. 205
The First New System	p. 216
Imperial Festivities	p. 246
The 180-Million-Franc Agreement	p. 281
Incorporation of the Suburban Communes and the Third System	p. 308
Financial Difficulties	p. 340
The Lion Grown Old	p. 368
Haussmannization
The Ends and the Means	p. 385
Modern Infrastructures	p. 396
Public Buildings	p. 407
The Golden Age of Real Estate	p. 417
"An Epoch in the History of City Planning"	p. 432
Maps of Paris	p. 440
Chronology	p. 446
Notes	p. 467
Bibliography	p. 477
Index	p. 491
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