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    Haussmann's renovation of Paris was a vast public works programme commissioned by French Emperor Napoleon III and directed by his prefect of the Seine...
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    Georges-Eugène Haussmann, commonly known as Baron Haussmann (French: [ʒɔʁʒ(ə) øʒɛn (baʁɔ̃) osman]; 27 March 1809 – 11 January 1891), was a French official...
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    store chain, the biggest in Europe. Its flagship store is on Boulevard Haussmann in the 9th arrondissement of Paris but it now operates a number of locations...
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    Saint-Michel was part of the great project for the reconstruction of Paris overseen by Baron Haussmann during the French Second Empire. In 1855 Haussmann completed...
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    arrondissements unite under new name from The Local France Carmona, Michel (2002). Haussmann: His Life and Times and the Making of Modern Paris. Chicago: Ivan...
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    in Auteuil. Paris Guide. p. 1232. Paris. 1861. p. 422. Carmona, Michel (2002). Haussmann: His Life and Times, and the Making of Modern Paris. Chicago: Ivan...
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  • – 6 April 1881) was a French architect. He worked closely with Baron Haussmann on the transformation of Paris under Napoleon III during the Second Empire...
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    Pierre Bourdieu, Jean-François Champollion, Auguste Comte, Georges Cuvier, Joseph Fourier, Manuel Godoy, Georges-Eugène Haussmann, Jean-François Lyotard...
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    Pissarro (1898). Boulevard Haussmann, with the classic Haussmann-style apartment buildings (1870) The Fontaine Saint-Michel by Gabriel Davioud (1856–61)...
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    university facilities of the Sorbonne. The Boulevard Saint-Michel was the other important part of Haussmann's renovation of Paris on the Left Bank along with the...
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    was taken to the Louvre. In 1849, Louis-Napoleon named Georges Eugène Haussmann as the new Prefect of the Var department. He served there only one year...
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    Saint-Etienne were found. During the 1853 to 1870 renovation of Paris by Baron Haussmann, many buildings on the Île de la Cité were demolished, including all the...
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    Vendôme was built in 1707 by the architect Jean-Baptiste Alexandre Le Blond, rue d'Enfer (today boulevard Saint-Michel) for the Carthusian canon Antoine de...
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    it was built according to plans by Jean-Charles Adolphe Alphand, who created all the major parks for Haussmann's renovation of Paris commanded by the...
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    5–7, rue Pillet-Will (1907–1979); 141, boulevard Haussmann (1979–2020); and 175, boulevard Haussmann (since September 2020). Lazard's New York City headquarters...
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    projects of Napoleon III and his Prefect of the Seine, Georges-Eugène Haussmann in the 1860s dramatically changed the map of the quarter. To reduce the...
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    ISBN 9780674032095 Lear 1870, p. 101-102. Lear 1870, p. 103. Cremona, Michel (2002). Haussmann: His Life and Times and the Making of Modern Paris. Chicago: Ivan...
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    Dominique Gauthier, Peter Halley, Federico Herrero, Jonathan Lasker, Michel Majerus, Jean-Luc Moerman, Frank Nitsche, Albert Oehlen, Fiona Rae, Thomas Scheibitz...
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    same year, a third wine shop, Les Caves Taillevent, opened in Printemps Haussmann, Paris. In 2013, Les Caves de Taillevent opened its first Middle Eastern...
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    Napoléon III, Baron Haussmann, and the Quest to Build a Modern City. New York: St Martin's Press. ISBN 9780312626891. Leniaud, Jean-Michel (2003). Charles...
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    Nobel Prize in Literature 1947. Julien Gracq, writer Georges-Eugène Haussmann, baron, préfet, and city planner Stella Jang, Korean singer-songwriter...
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    café Français, Maison dorée among others. Upon completion of boulevard Haussmann in the 1920s these establishments disappeared to be replaced by other...
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    Laurent Jean Balladur Jean Béraud Jean Cocteau Jean de Baroncelli Jean Dieudonné Jean Hugo Jean Marais Jean Nohain Jean-Barthélemy Hauréau Jean-Claude...
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  • dancing around in Heaven. Michel Serrault as Octave Clapoteau Michel Piccoli as Étienne Sembadel Juliette Binoche as Esther Jean Carmet as Jocelyn Bouloire...
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    prefect of the Seine, Baron Haussmann. It was designed to connect the Place de l'Étoile with another important part of Haussmann's plan, the Bois de Boulogne...
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    rebuilding of Paris headed by the Baron Georges-Eugène Haussmann; the Gare du Nord's absence from Haussmann's work has been referred to as "exhibiting arbitrariness...
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    celebrations such as the visit of Queen Victoria in 1855. To clear its access, Haussmann had nine streets razed to create the Avenue Victoria. The old staircase...
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  • Paris – resting place of famous persons such as Colette, Baron Georges Haussmann, Eugène Delacroix, Oscar Wilde, Jim Morrison, Molière, Maurice Merleau-Ponty...
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    exile; but he wanted to build on a much larger scale. Working with Haussmann and Jean-Charles Adolphe Alphand, the engineer who headed the new Service of...
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    design still seen today. In 1853, Haussmann hired an experienced engineer from the corps of Bridges and Highways, Jean-Charles Adolphe Alphand, whom he...
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