11. Paris and the Belle Époque

France Since 1871 (HIST 276) Modern Paris was indelibly shaped by the rebuilding project ordered by Napoleon III and carried out by Baron Haussmann in the 1850s and 60s. The largescale demolition of whole neighborhoods in central Paris, coupled with a boom in industrial development outside the city, cemented a class division between center and periphery that has persisted into the twentyfirst century. Curiously, this division is the obverse of the arrangement of most American cities, in which the inne