Day 2 - Haussmann and the Recreation of Paris

What You Need to Do For Today's Presentation

Background to the Changes

David H. Pinkney, “Paris in 1850" from Napoleon III and the Rebuilding of Paris, pp.6-14,16-24.

Colin Jones, “Haussmannism and the City of Modernity” in Paris: Biography of a City, pp.299-301, 304-305, 308-310, 313, 316 - 319.

The roles of Napoleon III and Haussmann

Haussmannization and the History of Paris

Strategies that Made Haussmannization Possible

 

 

The Nature of the Changes

Colin Jones, “Haussmannism and the City of Modernity” in Paris: Biography of a City, pp.299-301, 304-305, 308-310, 313, 316 - 319.

The Ile de Ia Cité

Railways and straight lines

Parks and green space

David P. Jordan, "Haussmann and Haussmannisation: The Legacy for Paris."
French Historical Studies
, Vol. 27, No. 1 (Winter 2004), pp. 87-92.

The Impact of Haussmannization

Materials for Class Discussion

Link to Jamboard Exercise

Reactions to Haussmannization

 

Clark -- Dislike of Haussmannization

Clark -- The Contemporary Case Against Haussmannization

Clark -- Lost City

Higonnet, Nostalgia for the Old Paris

Higonnet, The Politics of Nostalgia

The Expulsion of the Poor from Paris

Charles Baudelsire, "The Swan"

Concerns about Change

Haussmann's changes seen as purely military and dictatorial

 

The boulevard Henri-IV during Haussmannization and today

Boulevard Montmartre 1863