{"product_id":"paris-city-of-dreams-napoleon-iii-baron-haussmann-and-the-creation-of-paris-9781538181966","title":"Paris, City of Dreams: Napoleon III, Baron","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Armchair historians in particular will appreciate McAuliffe’s readable yet detailed history supplemented with illustrations and bibliography.\" Booklist, Starred Review\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAcclaimed historian Mary McAuliffe vividly recaptures the Paris of Napoleon III, Claude Monet, and Victor Hugo as Georges Haussmann tore down and rebuilt Paris into the beautiful City of Light we know today.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eParis, 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eYet 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. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMcAuliffe 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 lavish excess, even while producing extreme poverty. 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNapoleon 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e[A] wonderful and fascinating book. . . . Acclaimed historian Mary McAuliffe vividly recaptures the Paris of Napoleon III, Claude Monet, and Victor Hugo as Georges Haussmann tore down and rebuilt Paris into the beautiful City of Light we know today. . . . 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.\u003c\/p\u003e * Eye Prefer Paris *\u003cbr\u003eHer reputation as a social and literary historian of Paris already cemented, McAuliffe returns with a detailed history of the City of Light and its nineteenth-century transformation into the sophisticated, envied capital. Its wide boulevards, monumental architecture, health-improving sewers and aqueducts, and efficient transportation systems began in earnest in the 1850’s under Napoleon III and his chief urban planner, Georges-Eugène Haussmann. Before becoming Emperor, Louis Napoleon in his London exile already had formulated plans for extending broad avenues west of the Louvre. With Haussmann’s skills at planning and at creating political will to action, the new Emperor created substantial parks on the city’s outskirts and built conveniently situated train stations for the novel technology of rail travel. Razing tenements and codifying design for new apartment buildings, Haussmann constructed the cityscapes of Paris so beloved in the twentieth century. Urban elegance came at the cost of democratic rule as the former republic hardened into autocracy. Armchair historians in particular will appreciate McAuliffe’s readable yet detailed history supplemented with illustrations and bibliography. * Booklist, Starred Review *\u003cbr\u003eThe re-creation of Paris from a medieval urban maze to the city of lights and boulevards comes to life in Mary McAuliffe’s historical exposé . . . an enlightening and overwhelming story of a tumultuous and transformative Parisian period. * Foreword Reviews *\u003cbr\u003eAs the world’s most magical city, Paris was created over the centuries by kings, emperors, and presidents, but, as Mary McAuliffe so magisterially reveals in Paris, City of Dreams, no one played a greater role in the modern configuration of this wondrous city than Louis-Napoleon and his chief urban advisor, Baron Georges Haussmann. Reading this masterful account, one realizes how Napoleon III and Haussmann transformed a city of narrow lanes, insalubrious dwellings, and staggering pestilence into a triumph of vital sanitation and unparalleled beauty, creating the broad boulevards and architectural masterpieces so universally admired. -- David Garrard Lowe, president of Beaux Arts Alliance and author of Lost Chicago\u003cbr\u003eIf you want to know how Paris came to look as it does, read this book! Mary McAuliffe has written a thoroughly entertaining account of the politics and business behind Haussmann’s famous boulevards. Weaving the lives of artists and writers into the tale of the city’s transformation, Paris, City of Dreams is also a well-informed history of France’s Second Empire and its inglorious end. -- David Bellos, author of The Novel of the Century: The Extraordinary Adventure of Les Misérables\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eList of Illustrations \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMap of Paris, 1860–1870\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 1 From Barricades to Bonaparte (1848–1851) \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 2 Blood and Empire (1852) \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 3 Enter Haussmann (1853) \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 4 A Nonessential War (1854) \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 5 A Queen Visits (1855) \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 6 What Goes Up . . . (1856–1857) \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 7 More and More (1858) \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 8 Dreams of Glory (1859) \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 9 Suddenly Larger (1860) \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 10 Turning Point (1861) \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 11 Les Misérables de Paris (1862) \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 12 Scandal (1863–1864) \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 13 Death and Taxes (1865) \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 14 Crisis (1866) \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 15 A Setting Sun (1867) \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 16 Twenty Years Later (1868) \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 17 Haussmann in Trouble (1869) \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 18 Finale (1870) \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 19 An End and a Beginning (1870–1871)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNotes \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBibliography \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIndex \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAbout the Author","brand":"Rowman \u0026 Littlefield","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50515893584215,"sku":"9781538181966","price":18.3,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781538181966.jpg?v=1745428171","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/paris-city-of-dreams-napoleon-iii-baron-haussmann-and-the-creation-of-paris-9781538181966","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}