Haussmann was not a creative thinker, and he always presented himself as merely the executor of Louis Napoleon’s desires. That is too self-effacing; he was, at the very least, a manager of genius.

In the 19th Century George-Eugène Haussmann completely redesigned and rebuilt the French capital. Jonathan Glancey describes how the city of today was born.

The Haussmann style of architecture, which is also sometimes described as Haussmannian, is the classic architecture that has defined modern-day Paris, and is probably what you think of when you ...

It is called Boulevard Haussmann, as it was christened in 1864 in tribute to Georges-Eugene Haussmann. "This street," Stephane Kirkland writes in his fine account of the reconstruction of Paris ...

Both Haussmann and his employer—Louis Napoleon, the nephew of Napoleon Bonaparte who had set himself up as Emperor Napoleon III—championed a vision of the city as a unified whole.

It's a belief held by many that Paris possesses a je ne sais quoi unlike any other city. But the capital of France—Gertrude Stein's unofficial hometown, Ernest Hemingway's moveable feast, the ...

The notorious city planner for Napoléon III, and prefect of the Seine region, Baron Georges-Eugène Haussmann turned Paris from a still medieval urban area to a triumphant imperial city ...

The sweeping, majestic boulevards of Paris were created between 1853 and 1870 by Georges-Eugène Haussmann, popularly known as Baron Haussmann. Acting under the instructions of Napoleon III, ...

In the 1870s, an emperor and a baron undertook the remaking of Paris: Napoleon III and Baron Georges-Eugene Haussmann's urban renewal project converted clusters of medieval warrens into the Paris ...