Les Promenades de Paris, 1860’s, various artists, printed by Ch. Chardon, Paris.

Urban design by Baron Georgea-Eugene Haussmann. Commissioned by Napolean III. The project encompassed all aspects of urban planning, both in the centre of Paris and in the surrounding districts: streets and boulevards, regulations imposed on facades of buildings, public parks, sewers and water works, city facilities and public monuments.

Haussmann’s restructuring of Paris gave its present form; its long straight, wide boulevards with their cafés and shops determined a new type of urban scenario and have had a profound influence on the everyday lives of Parisians. Haussmann’s boulevards established the foundation of what is today the popular representation of the French capital around the world, by cutting through the old Paris of dense and irregular medieval alleyways into a rational city with wide avenues and open spaces which extended outwards far beyond the old city limits.

17” x 24”

Steelplate engravings. Condition: excellent, some marginal spotting.

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