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This episode explores Baron Haussmann's transformative renovation of Paris in the mid-19th century, which restructured the city into a modern urban landscape. Under Emperor Napoleon III, Haussmann's initiatives included the creation of wide boulevards, improved sanitation, and urban parks, reshaping Paris's infrastructure and aesthetics. Despite facing criticism for the social and economic impacts of his projects, Haussmann's legacy endures as a blueprint for urban planning worldwide.

Aujourd'hui, Lorànt Deutsch nous parle du Baron Haussmann, né justement un 27 mars et connu pour avoir profondément transformé Paris au milieu du 19 me siècle... Du lundi au vendredi, Lorànt Deutsch vous donne rendez-vous dans la matinale de RTL. Chaque jour, l'animateur de "Entrez dans l'histoire" revient sur ces grands moments qui ont façonné notre pays.

Chaque samedi, retrouvez une histoire pour tout apprendre d'un personnage, d'un objet iconique, d'un monument.. Certains ont changé le monde, et dans tous les cas ils sont tous entrés dans la légende. Dans cet épisode, Laurent Marsick raconte l'histoire du baron bâtisseur.

Ecoutez "Lis-moi une histoire Vraie" du 10 août 2023 avec Laurent Marsick. Dans cet épisode, l'histoire du baron bâtisseur est racontée par Anaïs Bouton, présentatrice. En partenariat avec Gallimard Jeunesse, Laurent Marsick vous propose chaque jour une histoire vraie pour les enfants à retrouver sur RTL et en podcast sur RTL.fr. Chaque histoire est lue par un ou une journaliste de la rédaction de RTL.

Stéphane Bern, entouré de ses chroniqueurs historiquement drôles et parfaitement informés, s'amuse avec l'Histoire – la grande, la petite, la moyenne… - et retrace les destins extraordinaires de personnalités qui n'auraient jamais pu se croiser, pour deux heures où le savoir et l'humour avancent main dans la main. Aujourd'hui, le baron Haussmann.

Stéphane Bern, entouré de ses chroniqueurs historiquement drôles et parfaitement informés, s'amuse avec l'Histoire – la grande, la petite, la moyenne… - et retrace les destins extraordinaires de personnalités qui n'auraient jamais pu se croiser, pour deux heures où le savoir et l'humour avancent main dans la main. Aujourd'hui, le baron Haussmann.

Welcome to the Join Us in France Travel Podcast, where we explore the rich history, architecture, and culture of France's most iconic cities and regions. In today's episode, we'll be focusing on Georges-Eugène Haussmann and the transformation of Paris in the 19th century with Elyse Rivin of Toulouse Guided Walks. About Baron Haussmann and the Transformation of Paris Haussmann, commonly referred to as "Baron Haussmann," was appointed by Emperor Napoleon III to modernize Paris. His extensive urban renewal project aimed to address the city's issues, such as overcrowding, unsanitary conditions, and inefficient transportation. In this episode, we'll examine Haussmann's key contributions to urban planning, the controversies and criticisms of his methods, and the long-term effects of his work on Paris. We'll also discuss how Haussmann's efforts influenced the development of other cities around the world. Join us as we uncover the story of Baron Haussmann and the significant impact he had on shaping modern Paris, right here on the Join Us in France Travel Podcast. Magazine Part of the Podcast Renew your passport early! When do you need to reserve restaurants in Paris? Table of Contents for this Episode Today on the podcast: Haussmann and the Transformation of Paris Podcast supporters Newsletter Magazine Part of the Podcast Haussmann and the transformation of Paris Opera Garnier Medieval Paris Haussmann's ancestors Haussmann becomes the Sous-Préfet of Paris Napoleon's plans to clean up, to beautify, to enlarge and to modernize Haussmann becomes Prefet of Paris Napoleon wants a small park in every arrondissement Rue de Rivoli, first boulevard to be finished Haussmann's rational aesthetic The Human Cost of the Haussmann Transformation of Paris What Emile Zola and Jules Ferry thought of these changes Some of Haussmann's projects Did he design wide streets so the military could get around? Considering the huge costs Haussmann is fired Haussmann's influence outside of Paris Renovations would have happened no matter what Thank you patrons Video about cooking mushrooms Driving in France video Your next journey to France – Personal Itinerary Consultant VoiceMap app tours US Passports Travel Question of the Week – Do you need to reserve Restaurants in Paris? Share the podcast trailer Next week on the podcast Copyright

Paris, 1867: à l'apogée du Second empire, en pleine Exposition universelle, le Paris réaménagé par le baron Haussmann étale sa propsérité économique. Le restaurant n'est plus simplement le lieu où l'on se sustente. Aller au restaurant symbolise cette volonté de profiter du temps libre et de montrer sa réussite sociale. David Michon nous invite au Chez Gustave, restaurant réputé à la décoration Art nouveau,  pour nous faire revivre 24 heures de la vie de l'établissement et à travers lui le quotidien de la société parisienne.

Président de la République de 1848 à 1852 et empereur de 1852 à 1870, Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte a longtemps été une figure délaissée de l'histoire de France, souvent réduit à son accession au pouvoir par un coup d'Etat et son départ suite à la défaite militaire contre la Prusse. Dans cet ouvrage de la collection "Bibliothèque des illustres", illustré grâce au riche fonds icnongraphique de la Bibliothèque nationale de France, Thierry Lentz montre aussi les autres aspects marquants de son règne: essor économique, certaines avancées sociales, urbanisation, changements politiques. Napoléon III est aussi un acteur majeur de la pleine entrée la France dans l'époque moderne. 

Alexandre Gady est historien de l'architecture, professeur à Sorbonne université, directeur du centre André Chastel et président d'honneur de la société pour la protection des paysages et de l'esthétique de la France. Il relate comment l'anticléricalisme latent affecte la préservation du magnifique patrimoine des églises parisiennes et comment démythifier le baron Haussmann.Vous pouvez consulter notre politique de confidentialité sur https://art19.com/privacy ainsi que la notice de confidentialité de la Californie sur https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Pour ce premier épisode d'"Entrez dans Paris", Lorànt Deutsch vous emmène sur la rive droite de Paris sur le boulevard Haussmann. Au XIXe, tout va être bouleversé : c'est une Révolution des idées, des transports et donc pour la ville de Paris, tout va être repensé. Et un homme à lui seul va synthétiser toutes ces révolutions, c'est le Baron Haussmann. Tout l'été, Entrez dans Paris avec Lorànt Deutsch. Chaque jour dans ce podcast, découvrez en moins de 2 minutes l'histoire d'une rue de la capitale. Ecoutez Entrez dans l'Histoire avec Lorànt Deutsch du 1er juillet 2022

Beaucoup le connaissent à travers un film de Guillaume Canet, or son métier c'est l'ostréiculture.  Joël Dupuch a sa production ostréicole « Les Parcs de l'Impératrice » aux Jacquets (Lège Cap Ferret). Il fournit en majorité les professionnels des métiers de bouche. Par ailleurs, Joël nous réserve d'autres surprises dont un spectacle le 18 octobre à Bordeaux et le 23 octobre à Paris. Pour accompagner ses huîtres, Joël vous suggère un Essentiel des Vins de Bordeaux : Château de Rouillac dans l'appellation Pessac-Léognan. Ses racines espagnoles et sa passion pour les chevaux ont mené ses pas vers le Château de Rouillac. Laurent Cisneros acquiert l'ancienne propriété du célèbre Baron Haussmann, bâtie en 1864, et qui s'étend aujourd'hui sur 36 hectares. Il a été récompensé récemment par le guide Bettane & Desseauve avec une note de 95/100. Avec son équipe, une cuvée a été créé en hommage à leur passion équestre « le Dada de Rouillac ». Les podcasts : Joël Dupuch nous parle de ses huîtres, de cinéma et de son futur One-Man-Show Laurent Cisneros nous présente le Château de Rouillac et son histoire Laurent Cisneros nous détaille ses cuvées Contacts : Les Parcs de l'Impératrice 5 impasse de la Conche 33 950 Lège Cap Ferret Tél : 05 56 60 48 91 contact@parcsdelimperatrice.com Les Parcs de l'Impératrice Château de Rouillac 12 chemin du 20 août 1949 33 610 Canéjan Tél : 05 57 12 84 63 info@chateauderouillac.com Château de Rouillac L'article Joël Dupuch Les Parcs de l'Impératrice avec Laurent Cisneros : Château De Rouillac est apparu en premier sur Les Essentiels du Bassin.

Sous le second Empire, le baron Haussmann va donner à Paris son nouveau visage. Un immense chantier qu'il dirige de main de maître.Au milieu du XIXe siècle, le cœur de Paris est encore très moyenâgeux. Peu exposées au soleil et mal aérées, les habitations sont humides et malsaines. La population ne cesse de croître, et avec elle le nombre d'indigents, alors que la promiscuité et l'exiguïté deviennent toujours plus oppressantes. Quant aux rues, elles ont été tracées de manière hasardeuse, au gré des modes et des époques. Découvrez comment le Baron Haussmann a ouvert la voie à la modernité... Et inspirez-vous de ses méthodes pour mener à bien des projets d'envergure.Un portrait signé Anne Vermès, fondatrice du cabinet Traits d'unions, écrit avec Guillaume Pigeat et lu par Lomig Guillo.Vous pouvez consulter notre politique de confidentialité sur https://art19.com/privacy ainsi que la notice de confidentialité de la Californie sur https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

La mort du Baron Haussmann

This episode features our frequent and very popular guest Elyse Rivin. If you enjoy her episodes, please consider supporting her on Patreon. The Bois de Boulogne is to the West of Paris, covers part of the 16e arrondissement and it is a large natural area. Baron Haussmann turned it into a park in the middle of the 1800s. At that time it went from a forest to an area of leisure for the upper class. In its most recent history one part of the Bois de Boulogne is an area where there is a fair amount of prostitution, but you can take a stroll there without ever running into it. It is called "le carré". A Brief History of the Bois de Boulogne The name Bois de Boulogne comes from time of Philippe Le Bel. As he sent his daughter away to marry the English King they prayed in a church called Notre Dame de Boulogne. The King then decided to build another church in the woods and named it Boulogne la Petite. The area then became known as Boulogne. King Chideric gave this large forest to the Abbey of Saint Denis and they built an abbey there and developed it. Then Philippe-Auguste bought a large part of this forest in the 1100s because he wanted hunting grounds close to Paris. Saint Louis' sister didn't want to marry and wished to be a nun. Her brother the King gave her an Abbey called Longchamp. That's where the longchamp hypodrome is today. During the 100 year war, the English hid in the Bois de Boulogne to attack Paris. During the Renaissance, François 1st decided to build a chateau called Chateau de Madrid in the middle of the forest. This is a place where he received a lot of courtesans for his various interludes with ladies. This might be where the prostitution started in this part of France? The Spanish and the English also used the forest to attack Napoleon in more recent times and much of the forest burned. When Napoleon III came to power in the middle of the 1800s he decided to revive this area and turn it into a park. What Is at the Bois de Boulogne Today? This is a place where you'll find paths for horse-back riding, there are lakes where you can rent boats and go rowing. There are walkers, joggers, and 3 famous restaurants: The Prés Catalan restaurant is in there, it's a 3 star restaurant and fairly expensive even at lunch-time.  Le Châlet des Îles and Auberge du Bonheur. There are also two race-tracks for horse races: Longchamp and Auteuil that attract a lot of people. The great tennis complex of Roland-Garros is at one end of the Bois de Boulogne. There are interesting visual features around the various lakes, but they are not as impressive as what you'll see at Parc Monceau for example. How to get there? Metro line 1, line 9, line 10 will take you close to the forest, but there are also buses and a tram, depending on where you want to go. We recommend the free app CityMapper. Works Inspired by the Bois de Boulogne Books by Balzac, Flaubert, Zola, Maupassant, Daudet  are set in the Bois de Boulogne, at least partially. Painters often got inspiration by going to this park to paint natural scenes, even if they didn't necessarily identified it by name. Learn about the best parks in Paris   Email | Facebook | Instagram | Pinterest | Twitter   Did you get my VoiceMap Paris tours yet? They are designed for people who want to see the best of Paris neighborhoods and put what they are looking at into historical context. There are so many great stories in Paris. Don't walk right past them without having a clue what happened there! You can buy them directly from the VoiceMap app or click here to order activation codes at the podcast listener discount price. Support the Show Tip Your Guide Extras Patreon Audio Tours Merchandise Recommended in this Episode Les Dames du Bois de Boulogne, a movie from 1945 by Robert Bresson If you enjoyed this episode, you should also listen to related episode(s): Best Parks In and Around Paris, Episode 290 Categories: Active Vacations in France, Paris

Dispatch from Radio Free Disneyland is a series of music playlists, pertaining mostly to the culture, stories, and environments presented in Disney Films and Theme Parks. It is not associated with The Walt Disney Company.  And, while the podcasts, including the imbedded, watermarked music, are downloadable, their presence is intended to promote the included artists, and encourage ownership of their work through the included links to Amazon Music and other venues. DISPATCH: Walt Disney and The Olympics Of Progress PLAY-CAST Progress Artist:          Public Service Broadcasting (with Tracyanne Campbell) Album:        Every Valley Public Service Broadcasting are a London-based pseudonymous musical group known for performing live with newsreel sound collateral and video footage of historical technological events. The band have toured internationally and in 2015 they won the Vanguard category of The Progressive Music Awards. publicservicebroadcasting.net     Robert Moses (December 18, 1888 – July 29, 1981) was an American public official who worked mainly in the New York metropolitan area. Known as the "master builder" of mid-20th century New York City, Long Island, Rockland County, and Westchester County, he is sometimes compared to Baron Haussmann of Second Empire Paris, and was one of the most polarizing figures in the history of urban development in the United States. His decisions favoring highways over public transit helped create the modern suburbs of Long Island and influenced a generation of engineers, architects, and urban planners.   This simultaneously bold and bland building housed the State of Illinois pavilion, featuring Great Moments with Mr. Lincoln. The winkin' blinkin' Lincoln was a sensation. A Message From The Manager of Radio Free Disneyland it's a small world (presented by Pepsi Cola for UNICEF) was also staged in a modern building. Rolly Crump's Tower of the Four Winds presaged the the playful look the Disneyland alliteration would take on. Ford Motor Company's Magic Skyway got the "skinniest" relocation to Disneyland after the Fair. Walt Disney had fought Cast requests to build a new administration building at the Park, but gave in when it involved making a home for the Fair's dinosaurs to be seen from the Disneyland Railroad. General Electric's Carousel of Progress had the most successful relocation of all the Fair shows. Playing at Disneyland and then at Walt Disney World. WED Enterprises (Walt Disney Imagineering) brought three lessons learned at Disneyland to the Fair. Capacity, Capacity, and Capacity. Mirror Maze Artist:          Disney Studio Orchestra Album:        Walt Disney and the World's Fair The music to a side event or pre-show at the General Electric World's Fair complex. Presumably a hall of mirrors.   Me and Julio Down by the Schoolyard Artist:          Paul Simon Album:        Paul Simon This major hit by Simon describes the atmosphere in the Flushing-Corona neighborhoods near the Fair site. The Robert Moses "drop - in" at the song's mid-point is from his Fair Opening Speech.     The Illinois Story Artist:          Disney Studio Orchestra Album:        Walt Disney and the World's Fair Pre-show music from the State of Illinois pavilion featuring Great Moments with Mr. Lincoln..       Atomic Number Artist:          Case/Lang/Veirs Album:        Case/Lang/Veirs From the June 2016 eponymous album from Niko Case, kd lang, and Laura Veirs   NY Times: Nuclear Fusion Every 6 Minutes To Be a World's Fair Attraction https://www.nytimes.com/1964/04/02/archives/nuclear-fusion-every-6-minutes-to-be-a-worlds-fair-attraction.html The Skydome Spectacular Artist:          Disney Studio Orchestra

We know quite a bit about the physical signatures of urban “modernity” foisted upon Paris by Baron Haussmann in the late nineteenth century — the broad boulevards, networked infrastructures, connected apartment houses, and assorted monuments — but little scholarship has seized on its precursors in the half-century prior. In Ideals of the Body: Architecture, Urbanism, and Hygiene in Postrevolutionary Paris (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2018), Sun-Young Park turns to another modernity, recovering a daunting array of Romantic and especially post-Napoleonic interventions — less spectacular but arguably more complex — on mobile Parisian bodies and the everyday spaces that host them. Park considers military gymnasia, schools, barracks, leisure gardens, and other spaces purpose-built to inculcate vigor in both individuated physical bodies and, their proponents hoped amid specters of national decline, in the French body politic. Each of these spaces, Park shows, a “threshold” between fully private and fully public realms, helped install — albeit imperfectly — its own “ideal” of the sanitized and gendered human subject. Ideals of the Body is a detailed, visually rich, theoretically motivated study in urban and architectural history, one that just might realign how we periodize and make sense of urban modernity writ large. Peter Ekman is Lecturer in Human Geography at the University of California, Berkeley. He received the Ph.D. from Berkeley in 2016, and is at work on two book projects on the cultural and historical geography of urban America across the long twentieth century. He can be reached at psrekman@berkeley.edu. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We know quite a bit about the physical signatures of urban “modernity” foisted upon Paris by Baron Haussmann in the late nineteenth century — the broad boulevards, networked infrastructures, connected apartment houses, and assorted monuments — but little scholarship has seized on its precursors in the half-century prior. In Ideals of the Body: Architecture, Urbanism, and Hygiene in Postrevolutionary Paris (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2018), Sun-Young Park turns to another modernity, recovering a daunting array of Romantic and especially post-Napoleonic interventions — less spectacular but arguably more complex — on mobile Parisian bodies and the everyday spaces that host them. Park considers military gymnasia, schools, barracks, leisure gardens, and other spaces purpose-built to inculcate vigor in both individuated physical bodies and, their proponents hoped amid specters of national decline, in the French body politic. Each of these spaces, Park shows, a “threshold” between fully private and fully public realms, helped install — albeit imperfectly — its own “ideal” of the sanitized and gendered human subject. Ideals of the Body is a detailed, visually rich, theoretically motivated study in urban and architectural history, one that just might realign how we periodize and make sense of urban modernity writ large. Peter Ekman is Lecturer in Human Geography at the University of California, Berkeley. He received the Ph.D. from Berkeley in 2016, and is at work on two book projects on the cultural and historical geography of urban America across the long twentieth century. He can be reached at psrekman@berkeley.edu. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We know quite a bit about the physical signatures of urban “modernity” foisted upon Paris by Baron Haussmann in the late nineteenth century — the broad boulevards, networked infrastructures, connected apartment houses, and assorted monuments — but little scholarship has seized on its precursors in the half-century prior. In Ideals of the Body: Architecture, Urbanism, and Hygiene in Postrevolutionary Paris (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2018), Sun-Young Park turns to another modernity, recovering a daunting array of Romantic and especially post-Napoleonic interventions — less spectacular but arguably more complex — on mobile Parisian bodies and the everyday spaces that host them. Park considers military gymnasia, schools, barracks, leisure gardens, and other spaces purpose-built to inculcate vigor in both individuated physical bodies and, their proponents hoped amid specters of national decline, in the French body politic. Each of these spaces, Park shows, a “threshold” between fully private and fully public realms, helped install — albeit imperfectly — its own “ideal” of the sanitized and gendered human subject. Ideals of the Body is a detailed, visually rich, theoretically motivated study in urban and architectural history, one that just might realign how we periodize and make sense of urban modernity writ large. Peter Ekman is Lecturer in Human Geography at the University of California, Berkeley. He received the Ph.D. from Berkeley in 2016, and is at work on two book projects on the cultural and historical geography of urban America across the long twentieth century. He can be reached at psrekman@berkeley.edu. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We know quite a bit about the physical signatures of urban “modernity” foisted upon Paris by Baron Haussmann in the late nineteenth century — the broad boulevards, networked infrastructures, connected apartment houses, and assorted monuments — but little scholarship has seized on its precursors in the half-century prior. In Ideals of the Body: Architecture, Urbanism, and Hygiene in Postrevolutionary Paris (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2018), Sun-Young Park turns to another modernity, recovering a daunting array of Romantic and especially post-Napoleonic interventions — less spectacular but arguably more complex — on mobile Parisian bodies and the everyday spaces that host them. Park considers military gymnasia, schools, barracks, leisure gardens, and other spaces purpose-built to inculcate vigor in both individuated physical bodies and, their proponents hoped amid specters of national decline, in the French body politic. Each of these spaces, Park shows, a “threshold” between fully private and fully public realms, helped install — albeit imperfectly — its own “ideal” of the sanitized and gendered human subject. Ideals of the Body is a detailed, visually rich, theoretically motivated study in urban and architectural history, one that just might realign how we periodize and make sense of urban modernity writ large. Peter Ekman is Lecturer in Human Geography at the University of California, Berkeley. He received the Ph.D. from Berkeley in 2016, and is at work on two book projects on the cultural and historical geography of urban America across the long twentieth century. He can be reached at psrekman@berkeley.edu. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We know quite a bit about the physical signatures of urban “modernity” foisted upon Paris by Baron Haussmann in the late nineteenth century — the broad boulevards, networked infrastructures, connected apartment houses, and assorted monuments — but little scholarship has seized on its precursors in the half-century prior. In Ideals of the Body: Architecture, Urbanism, and Hygiene in Postrevolutionary Paris (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2018), Sun-Young Park turns to another modernity, recovering a daunting array of Romantic and especially post-Napoleonic interventions — less spectacular but arguably more complex — on mobile Parisian bodies and the everyday spaces that host them. Park considers military gymnasia, schools, barracks, leisure gardens, and other spaces purpose-built to inculcate vigor in both individuated physical bodies and, their proponents hoped amid specters of national decline, in the French body politic. Each of these spaces, Park shows, a “threshold” between fully private and fully public realms, helped install — albeit imperfectly — its own “ideal” of the sanitized and gendered human subject. Ideals of the Body is a detailed, visually rich, theoretically motivated study in urban and architectural history, one that just might realign how we periodize and make sense of urban modernity writ large. Peter Ekman is Lecturer in Human Geography at the University of California, Berkeley. He received the Ph.D. from Berkeley in 2016, and is at work on two book projects on the cultural and historical geography of urban America across the long twentieth century. He can be reached at psrekman@berkeley.edu. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We know quite a bit about the physical signatures of urban “modernity” foisted upon Paris by Baron Haussmann in the late nineteenth century — the broad boulevards, networked infrastructures, connected apartment houses, and assorted monuments — but little scholarship has seized on its precursors in the half-century prior. In Ideals of the Body: Architecture, Urbanism, and Hygiene in Postrevolutionary Paris (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2018), Sun-Young Park turns to another modernity, recovering a daunting array of Romantic and especially post-Napoleonic interventions — less spectacular but arguably more complex — on mobile Parisian bodies and the everyday spaces that host them. Park considers military gymnasia, schools, barracks, leisure gardens, and other spaces purpose-built to inculcate vigor in both individuated physical bodies and, their proponents hoped amid specters of national decline, in the French body politic. Each of these spaces, Park shows, a “threshold” between fully private and fully public realms, helped install — albeit imperfectly — its own “ideal” of the sanitized and gendered human subject. Ideals of the Body is a detailed, visually rich, theoretically motivated study in urban and architectural history, one that just might realign how we periodize and make sense of urban modernity writ large. Peter Ekman is Lecturer in Human Geography at the University of California, Berkeley. He received the Ph.D. from Berkeley in 2016, and is at work on two book projects on the cultural and historical geography of urban America across the long twentieth century. He can be reached at psrekman@berkeley.edu. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We know quite a bit about the physical signatures of urban “modernity” foisted upon Paris by Baron Haussmann in the late nineteenth century — the broad boulevards, networked infrastructures, connected apartment houses, and assorted monuments — but little scholarship has seized on its precursors in the half-century prior. In Ideals of the Body: Architecture, Urbanism, and Hygiene in Postrevolutionary Paris (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2018), Sun-Young Park turns to another modernity, recovering a daunting array of Romantic and especially post-Napoleonic interventions — less spectacular but arguably more complex — on mobile Parisian bodies and the everyday spaces that host them. Park considers military gymnasia, schools, barracks, leisure gardens, and other spaces purpose-built to inculcate vigor in both individuated physical bodies and, their proponents hoped amid specters of national decline, in the French body politic. Each of these spaces, Park shows, a “threshold” between fully private and fully public realms, helped install — albeit imperfectly — its own “ideal” of the sanitized and gendered human subject. Ideals of the Body is a detailed, visually rich, theoretically motivated study in urban and architectural history, one that just might realign how we periodize and make sense of urban modernity writ large. Peter Ekman is Lecturer in Human Geography at the University of California, Berkeley. He received the Ph.D. from Berkeley in 2016, and is at work on two book projects on the cultural and historical geography of urban America across the long twentieth century. He can be reached at psrekman@berkeley.edu. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The nineteenth century witnessed an unprecedented degree of urbanization, an increase in urban population growth relative to population growth generally. One of the chief consequences of this growth was class segregation, as the bourgeoisie and upper classes were forced to inhabit the same confined space as workers. Significantly, this had opposed effects in Europe, where the working classes typically inhabit the periphery of cities, and the United States, where they are most often in the city center itself. The growth of cities was accompanied by a high-pitched rhetoric of disease and decay, as the perceived hygienic problems of concentrated urban populations were extrapolated to refer to the city itself as a biological organism. The Baron Haussmann's reconstruction of Paris under the Second Empire is a classic example of the intertwinement of urban development, capitalism and state power.

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 large-scale 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 twenty-first century. Curiously, this division is the obverse of the arrangement of most American cities, in which the inner city is typically impoverished while the suburbs are wealthy.

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 large-scale 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 twenty-first century. Curiously, this division is the obverse of the arrangement of most American cities, in which the inner city is typically impoverished while the suburbs are wealthy.

The nineteenth century witnessed an unprecedented degree of urbanization, an increase in urban population growth relative to population growth generally. One of the chief consequences of this growth was class segregation, as the bourgeoisie and upper classes were forced to inhabit the same confined space as workers. Significantly, this had opposed effects in Europe, where the working classes typically inhabit the periphery of cities, and the United States, where they are most often in the city center itself. The growth of cities was accompanied by a high-pitched rhetoric of disease and decay, as the perceived hygienic problems of concentrated urban populations were extrapolated to refer to the city itself as a biological organism. The Baron Haussmann's reconstruction of Paris under the Second Empire is a classic example of the intertwinement of urban development, capitalism and state power.

have always loved the immense streets of Paris, shimmering in the sun, the crowds of all colours, those beautiful linear and aerial perspectives, those eccentric fashions, etc. But how to do it? To install oneself in the middle of the street is impossible in Paris. Ludovic Piette, letter to Pissarro 18721 Early in 1897 Pissarro began a series of paintings of the intersection of the boulevards Montmartre, Haussmann and des Italiens with the rues de Richelieu and Drouot. Between 10 February and 17 April he painted fourteen views looking east along the Boulevard Montmartre, and a further two towards the Boulevard des Italiens. From the 1860s Baron Haussmann’s interventions transformed Paris. The narrow, winding streets of the medieval city – easily barricaded in the 1848 revolution – were destroyed. Approximately 150 kilometres of road were constructed, with long avenues, apartments of a standard height, public gardens, the Paris Opéra and other public buildings, new bridges, gas lamps, a new water supply and sewers, reinvented the city. By the late 1880s Pissarro solved the conundrum suggested by his friend Piette: elevation. From a room in the Hôtel de Russie, on the corner of the Boulevard des Italiens and Rue Drouot, Pissarro looked down onto the new spaces of Paris. Although the artist and subsequent commentators are very particular about the locations of the Boulevard Montmartre series, the city’s topography is not his subject. Rather it is the changing conditions of the streets themselves. Pissaro took several cues from Monet; the high viewpoint and bustling street recall his friend’s painting Boulevard des Capucines 1873.2Both artists show the city’s hustle and bustle – a scatter of people à la japonaise, the melange of dress and hats, pillar boxes and carriage wheels – channelled down the grand boulevard. Boulevard Montmartre, morning, cloudy weather is an extraordinarily energetic painting. Pissarro’s ink and wash drawing of 1897 shows the basic components of the fourteen canvasses, but in the paintings the vanishing point is higher.3This gives the scene greater vibrancy, and makes us feel as if we are leaning out into the street. The merging of the boulevards in the distance, fringed on either side by footpaths, street-level shops and regulation-height apartments, all serve to emphasise the high perspective. A forest of chimneys is echoed by spindly trees, which line the boulevard. The patchwork of shop windows at right seems to take on elements of the crowds. An ‘imperial coach’, the heads of passengers visible through the open roof, ferries people down the boulevard. The scene is rendered with a palette of great subtlety: greys, browns and whites accented with red and tiny amounts of green. Pissarro’s fixed viewpoint meant that he recorded the ever-shifting configurations of crowds and traffic. At times the differences between the position of people in the street from one Boulevard painting to another is so slight that we could be looking at photographs of the same scene, taken only moments apart. Lucina Ward 1 In Janine Bailly-Herzberg (ed.), Mon cher Pissarro – Lettres de Ludovic Piette à Camille Pissarro, Paris: Editions du Valhermeil, 1985, p. 73. 2 Monet, either the version in Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, or the painting in the Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow. 3 Carriages on the Boulevard Montmartre 1897, private collection; see Karen Levitov and Richard Shiff, Camille Pissarro: impressions of city and country, New York: Jewish Museum, 2007, p. 70.