baron Haussman and the planning of Paris
1953; Liverpool University Press; Volume: 24; Issue: 3 Linguagem: Inglês
10.3828/tpr.24.3.wt2k383618381872
ISSN1478-341X
Autores Tópico(s)French Urban and Social Studies
ResumoParis, the city of light, without air, sewers, drains, or pure water; IMAGINE take away the great arteries of communication the boulevards St. Germain, Sebastopol, St. Michel, Malesherbes and Haussmann, the great crossing places of the Etoile, the Republique, the Trocadero and the Opera, together with the radial avenues of .which they are the centres. Erase very many smaller roads as important as the rue de Turbigo and the rue Caulaincourt ; return the Bois de Boulogne and the Buttes Chaumont to their former wild state and their sinister traditions, the Champs Elysees to an ordinary street and the parks of Monceau and Montsouris to private property. Remove nearly all the squares, and from the streets and squares and quais of Paris chop down fifty thousand trees. And after that abolish the churches of St. Augustin, the Trinite, St. Francois Xavier, half a dozen hospitals, many schools and barracks, the Theatres of the Chatelet, Gaite and Sarah Bernhardt, the bridges of Alma, Solferino, National and Auteuil, entire residential quarters, offices, public buildings and museums, and part of the Louvre. And then you are left with some idea of Paris, 1 8 £3, the year in which Georges Haussmann, Baron of the Empire, became Prefect of the Seine.
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