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Paris 1860-1900 Destruction of the medieval or progress toward modern?

Paris 1860-1900 Destruction of the medieval or progress toward modern?. Georges- Eugène Haussmann Two views: The man who destroyed old Paris or the man who created New Paris?. Boulevards: A Post-revolutionary necessity? .

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Paris 1860-1900 Destruction of the medieval or progress toward modern?

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  1. Paris 1860-1900 Destruction of the medieval or progress toward modern? Georges-Eugène Haussmann Two views: The man who destroyed old Paris or the man who created New Paris?

  2. Boulevards: A Post-revolutionary necessity? Haussmann style boulevard named in his honor. Galleries Lafayette is the famous French department store.

  3. Map of Paris in 1860 Junction of the Boulevard Magenta, Boulevard de Strasbourg and the Rue du Faubourg Saint Martin, Paris How ugly Paris seems after a year's absence. How one chokes in these dark, narrow and dank corridors that we like to call the streets of Paris! One would think that one was in a subterranean city, that's how heavy is the atmosphere, how profound is the darkness! —the Vicomte de Launay, 1838 (as quoted in Rice, p. 9)

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