baron haussmann's work; what he has to say of it in that new volume of his. figures of the enormous cost -- poor in old age -- how the town was altered under his rule.

Yet by the spring of 1853, when Napoleon named Haussmann prefect of the Seine — the national government’s representative to and administrator of Paris — plans for the rebuilding of the city ...

The city of Paris always had a major fascination for me from an early age. Those customary pictures of my parents in front of the Eiffel Tower and the Arc D'Triomphe, it was always a city of ...

The State of Affairs in France--Baron Haussmann's Resignation. Share full article. June 15, 1869. Credit... The New York Times Archives.

The origins of contemporary Paris’s affluent inner city and poverty-stricken outer suburbs lie in Haussmann’s brutal destruction of thriving working-class neighbourhoods.

The book has a great cast, and we not only get nuanced looks at Haussmann and Louis Napoleon, but the Empress Eugénie, who was surprisingly influential, as well as Victor Hugo, Alexandre Dumas, ...