Paris, City of Dreams: Napoleon III, Baron Haussmann, and the Creation of Paris BOTY_2025 ONE OF THE TEN BEST

ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The Wall Street Journal

and written in an innovative fast-moving form that borrows technique from poetry

and a rare manuscript has gone missing

After quitting her dead-end job where she’d earned minimum wage and even less respect

the grandson of a senator

Paris, City of Dreams: Napoleon III, Baron Haussmann, and the Creation of Paris BOTY_2025 ONE OF THE TEN BEST"Armchair historians in particular will appreciate McAuliffes readable yet detailed history supplemented with illustrations and bibliography." Booklist, Starred Review Acclaimed historian Mary McAuliffe vividly recaptures the Paris of Napoleon III, Claude Monet, and Victor Hugo as Georges Haussmann tore down and rebuilt Paris into the beautiful City of Light we know today. Paris, City of Dreams traces the transformation of the City of Light during