Paris, city of dreams : Napoleon III, Baron Haussmann, and the creation of Paris / Mary McAuliffe.
| Author/creator | McAuliffe, Mary, 1943- author. |
| Format | Book |
| Publication | Lanham, Maryland : Rowman & Littlefield, an imprint of The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, Inc., [2020] |
| Description | xii, 329 pages : illustrations, map ; 23 cm |
| Subjects |
| Portion of title | Napoleon III, Baron Haussmann, and the creation of Paris |
| Contents | From Barricades to Bonaparte (1848-1851) -- Blood and Empire (1852) -- Enter Haussmann (1853) -- A Nonessential War (1854) -- A Queen Visits (1855) -- What Goes Up . . . (1856-1857) -- More and More (1858) -- Dreams of Glory (1859) -- Suddenly Larger (1860) -- Turning Point (1861) -- Les Misérables de Paris (1862) -- Scandal (1863-1864) -- Death and Taxes (1865) -- Crisis (1866) -- A Setting Sun (1867) -- Twenty Years Later (1868) -- Haussmann in Trouble (1869) -- Finale (1870) -- An End and a Beginning (1870-1871). |
| Abstract | "Traces the profound transformation of the City of Light during Napoleon III's Second Empire, as he and Georges Haussmann completely rebuilt Paris in less than two decades."-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Issued in other form | Online version: McAuliffe, Mary Sperling, 1943- Paris, City of Dreams. Lanham, Maryland : Rowman & Littlefield, [2020] 1538121298 |
| Genre/form | Informational works. |
| Genre/form | History. |
| Genre/form | Informational works. |
| LCCN | 2019045560 |
| ISBN | 9781538121283 hardcover |
| ISBN | 153812128X hardcover |
| ISBN | electronic publication |
| IAN | 99985835332 |