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Place de l’Etoile Drinking Fountain
The new scheme for the centre of Paris Fields In the 1870s, 50 fountains
included redesigning the area at one end were erected in poor areas of
of the Champs-Elysées (Elysian Fields). Avenue des Paris through the generosity
Haussmann created a star of 12 broad Champs-Elysées of the English francophile
avenues around the new Arc de Triomphe. Richard Wallace.
(The inset map shows the
area as it was in 1790.)

Arc de Triomphe
Site of Arc de
Triomphe

A V E M A R C E A U A V E D ’ I E N A

A V E D E F R I E D L A N D
A V E D E S C H A M P S - E L Y S E E S
A V E H O C H E

A V E K L E B E R
Bois de Boulogne
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I III, this park became a popular place
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E D E L ’ E T for walking and riding (see p247).
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A V E M A C - M A H O N A V A V E V I C T O R H U G O Baron Haussmann
Lawyer by training and civil
A V E C A R N O T D A V E F O C H servant by profession, Georges-
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Eugène Haussmann (1809–
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91) was appointed Prefect
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of the Seine by Napoleon

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III. For 17 years, he was in
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charge of urban planning.
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With the best architects and engineers of the day,
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he planned a new city, improved the water supply
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and sewerage, and created beautiful parks.
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Some avenues
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were named after
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French generals.
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1861 Garnier
designs new 1863 The nudity in Manet’s 1867 World 1870 Napoleon’s
Opera House Le Déjeuner sur l’Herbe causes Exhibition wife, Eugénie, flees
a scandal and is rejected by Paris at threat of war
the Academy (see p147)
1858 1860 1862 1864 1866 1868
1863 Crédit Lyonnais
bank established
1868 Press 1870 Start of
1862 Victor Hugo’s epic novel of censorship relaxed Franco-Prussian War
Paris’s poor, Les Misérables, published
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