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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Galeries Lafayette (redirect from Galeries Lafayette Paris Haussmann)
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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Gabriel Davioud (redirect from Jean-Antoine-Gabriel Davioud)
– 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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Toulon (section Upper Town of Georges-Eugène Haussmann)
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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Saint-Germain-des-Prés (section Haussmann)
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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MUDAM (redirect from Museum of Modern Art Grand-Duc Jean)
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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Charles Garnier (architect) (redirect from Jean Louis Charles Garnier)
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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