City of Light: The Making of Modern Paris

by Rupert Christiansen and Christiansen

Book Overview

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-Eug 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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1541673395
• ISBN13: 9781541673397
• Release Date: October 2018
• Publisher: Basic Books
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.66 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.2" x 7.6"