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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-Eugè Haussmann, the prefect of the Seine. Haussmann transformed the old medieval city of squalid slums and disease-ridden alleyways into a "City of Light" characterized by wide boulevards, apartment blocks, parks, squares and public monuments, new rail stations and department stores, and a new system of public sanitation. City of Light charts this fifteen-year project of urban renewal which -- despite the interruptions of war, revolution, corruption, and bankruptcy -- set a template for nineteenth and early twentieth-century urban planning and created the enduring landscape of modern Paris now so famous around the globe. Lively and engaging, City of Light is a book for anyone who wants to know how Paris became Paris.

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The old Paris was crowded inside medieval walls and was a warren of narrow, twisting streets, with the population packed into tenements that were filled with disease. The water was terrible and the there were no sewers. Napoleon III, a nephew of Napoleon who took advantage of tumultuous times to rise to the Presidency of France and then got himself made Emperor (1852-1870), engaged Baron Georges-Eugene Haussmann to modernize the city, an assignment he carried out with ruthless efficiency from 1853 to 1870. He drove broad boulevards through old neighborhoods, cleared the tenements in front of Notre Dame (liberating the modern view of the cathedral--or what is left of it), had a water system and sewers built, opened parks, and generally created the city tourists think of simply as "Paris." Very notably, a large and ornate Opera replaced Notre Dame as the center of the city. Rupert Christiansen tells this story in a nicely succinct, vivid, entertaining book. Anyone who loves Paris or is planning to visit the city will enjoy and learn from this very agreeable and enjoyable book.

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