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What is City of Light : The Making of Modern Paris about?
<b>A sparkling account of the nineteenth-century reinvention of Paris as the most beautiful, exciting city in the world</b><br><br> 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
Who reads City of Light : The Making of Modern Paris?
It is typically read by readers looking for immersive, entertainment-first reading.
Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.
- Author
- Rupert Christiansen
- Publisher
- Basic Books, Hachette Book Group
- Published
- 2018
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781541673465
- Category
- travel
- Subjects
- History, Travel, France
- Rating
- 4.2 / 5 (88 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
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