When Georges-Eugène Haussmann arrived from Bordeaux in 1853, Paris was cluttered and septic, rife with cholera, lacking a dependable water supply or drainage and with many of its people living in shanty towns … His first step was to knock much of the existing city down.
06 September 2018, The Tablet
The creation of modern Paris
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