David P. Jordan is the author of Napoleon and the Revolution, Transforming Paris: The Life and Labors of Baron Haussman, and The King’s Trial: Louis XVI vs. the French Revolution, among others.
The Paris we know today, with its grand boulevards, its bridges and parks, its monumental beauty, was essentially built in only seventeen years, in the middle of the nineteenth century. In this brief period, whole neighborhoods of medieval and revolutionary Paris -- over-crowded,...
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