At a ceremony held by French emperor Napoleon III, Georges-Eugène Haussmann assumes the post of Prefect of the Seine. In the next decade, Haussmann will direct a massive campaign to renovate the central districts of Paris. (By Brian Bockelman)
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Michel Carmona, Haussmann: His Life and Times, and the Making of Modern Paris (Chicago: Ivan R. Dee, 2002), 189.
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