Capital’s Capital
Christopher Prendergast: Baron Haussmann’s Paris, 3 October 2002
Haussmann: His Life and Times, and the Making of Modern Paris
by Michel Carmona, translated by Patrick Camiller.
Ivan Dee, 480 pp., £25, June 2002,9781566634274 Show More
by Michel Carmona, translated by Patrick Camiller.
Ivan Dee, 480 pp., £25, June 2002,
“... has Louis-Napoleon as a key player in a necessary process of ‘modernisation’ (roughly where Michel Carmona stands) or as a star figure in the creation of ‘the city as a work of art’ (the title of Donald Olsen’s book on the subject, published in 1988). Aesthetics were not Louis-Napoleon’s strong point. In the eclectic medley of Second Empire ... ”
