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Build Me A City: Secrets, Lies and Love In Baron Haussmann's Paris

Build Me A City: Secrets, Lies and Love In Baron Haussmann's Paris

Joaquim, Nancy

Hardcover

General FictionHistorical Fiction

ISBN10: 1737755904
ISBN13: 9781737755906
Publisher: Nancy Joaquim
Published: Jan 22 2022
Pages: 344
Weight: 1.45
Height: 0.94 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English


Paris, 1853. The gloomy, centuries-old city is undergoing the most important and splendid redevelopment in the history of modern urban planning. Day by day it is being transformed from a muddy, foul-smelling city languishing by a polluted river into a magnificent world capital. An explosive, tireless powerhouse is directing the massive task. He is Baron Georges Haussmann, a brilliant municipal administrator appointed in a matter of minutes during his first meeting with Emperor Louis Napoleon III to rid the medieval city of its soot and squalor and beautify its every corner. Build me a city! the Emperor commands Haussmann at Saint-Cloud. It is as Baron Haussmann begins his work and organizes his staff that he writes to Charles Fabron, a grieving young widower and successful architect in Rouen, offering him a position in his newly formed Offices of City Planning.

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