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Title: Haussmann: His Life and Times, and the Making of Modern Paris by Michel Carmona, Patrick Camiller ISBN: 1-56663-427-X Publisher: Ivan R Dee, Inc. Pub. Date: June, 2002 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $35.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.5 (2 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: A fine balance between biography and history
Comment: Baron Haussman was the famous 'architect' of modern Paris and has been little covered in history: enter Carmona, a biographer who sets the architect's life against the backdrop of 19th-century European society and history. A fine balance between biography and history is created in a survey of Haussmann's involvement in civic life as an administrator, and his influence on Paris politics and structures.
Rating: 4
Summary: Take a gamble and love it
Comment: Recently, I was looking for a book about Georges-Eugene Haussmann because of a long time interest in Paris, and when you come to speak of how it developed, that is a name that you just cannot ignore. The book hasn't been out for so long, so I took a gamble in buying it (no reviews were posted pretty much anywhere).
The first part of the book is about Haussmann and how he climbed up the ladder in the civil service (without losing sight of any of the cultural or historical background), when the following parts of the book focus more on Haussmann's time in Paris and the changes he made there (what it should be about). The only comment you can give on this part is that the maps in the back of the book are not enough to understand the bigger picture. I don't know whether this should be included in the book or whether the writer should have recommended the reader to buy a detailed plan de paris. He didn't say that so that's the star that's missing, but short of that, I think it's the perfect book you can buy about Baron Haussmann, his plans to change Paris and the cultural circumstances surrounding it.
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Title: Haussmann, or the Distinction: A Novel by Paul LaFarge ISBN: 0312420927 Publisher: Picador USA Pub. Date: 02 October, 2002 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: Transforming Paris: The Life and Labors of Baron Haussmann by David P. Jordan ISBN: 0226410382 Publisher: University of Chicago Press (Trd) Pub. Date: May, 1996 List Price(USD): $19.00 |
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Title: Seven Ages of Paris by ALISTAIR HORNE ISBN: 0679454810 Publisher: Knopf Pub. Date: 12 November, 2002 List Price(USD): $35.00 |
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Title: God's Secretaries : The Making of the King James Bible by Adam Nicolson ISBN: 0060185163 Publisher: HarperCollins Pub. Date: 29 April, 2003 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: Michelangelo and the Pope's Ceiling by Ross King ISBN: 0142003697 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: 25 November, 2003 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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