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Paris, City of Dreams - Napoleon III, Baron Haussmann, and the Creation of Paris (Hardcover)
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Paris, City of Dreams - Napoleon III, Baron Haussmann, and the Creation of Paris (Hardcover)
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Paris, City of Dreams traces the transformation of the City of
Light during Napoleon III’s Second Empire into the beloved city
of today. Together, Napoleon III and his right-hand man, Georges
Haussmann, completely rebuilt Paris in less than two decades—a
breathtaking achievement made possible not only by the emperor’s
vision and Haussmann’s determination, but by the regime’s
unrelenting authoritarianism, augmented by the booming economy that
Napoleon fostered. Yet a number of Parisians refused to comply with
the restrictions that censorship and entrenched institutional taste
imposed. Mary McAuliffe follows the lives of artists such as
Edouard Manet, Berthe Morisot, and Claude Monet, as well as writers
such as Emile Zola, Gustave Flaubert, and the poet Charles
Baudelaire, while from exile, Victor Hugo continued to fire
literary broadsides at the emperor he detested. McAuliffe brings to
life a pivotal era encompassing not only the physical restructuring
of Paris but also the innovative forms of banking and money-lending
that financed industrialization as well as the city’s
transformation. This in turn created new wealth and flaunted
excess, even while producing extreme poverty. Even more deeply,
change was occurring in the way people looked at and understood the
world around them, given the new ease of transportation and
communication, the popularization of photography, and the emergence
of what would soon be known as Impressionism in art and Naturalism
and Realism in literature—artistic yearnings that would flower in
the Belle Epoque. Napoleon III, whose reign abruptly ended after he
led France into a devastating war against Germany, has been
forgotten. But the Paris that he created has endured, brought to
vivid life through McAuliffe’s rich illustrations and evocative
narrative.
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