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A Political Romance‘We’ll go and laugh at the Palais-Royal’

A Political Romance: ‘We’ll go and laugh at the Palais-Royal’ [Both Gambetta and Léon had come to the capital in their youth in pursuit of personal advancement. Paris was the city of opportunity, unrivalled by any provincial centre. Thanks to the massive programme of urban renewal commissioned by Emperor Napoleon III in 1852 and overseen by the Prefect, Baron Georges-Eugène Haussmann, Paris had gradually been transformed into an impressive imperial capital. By 1870, it offered all the amenities that modern technology could provide. Gone were most of the narrow, dark lanes and ramshackle buildings of the medieval city. Gone, too, were the leather works and slaughterhouses that assailed the senses. Paris became the modern city familiar to today’s tourists, with its grand boulevards and sidewalks, its low-rise apartment blocks, its department stores, and its array of parks and gardens.2 It was the centre of intellectual and cultural life, the home of the leading institutions of education, the law and government. For a courtesan like Léon, or an aspiring lawyer like Gambetta, there was no better place to be.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

A Political Romance‘We’ll go and laugh at the Palais-Royal’

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Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan UK
Copyright
© Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2012
ISBN
978-1-349-30248-2
Pages
97 –116
DOI
10.1057/9780230369481_6
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Abstract

[Both Gambetta and Léon had come to the capital in their youth in pursuit of personal advancement. Paris was the city of opportunity, unrivalled by any provincial centre. Thanks to the massive programme of urban renewal commissioned by Emperor Napoleon III in 1852 and overseen by the Prefect, Baron Georges-Eugène Haussmann, Paris had gradually been transformed into an impressive imperial capital. By 1870, it offered all the amenities that modern technology could provide. Gone were most of the narrow, dark lanes and ramshackle buildings of the medieval city. Gone, too, were the leather works and slaughterhouses that assailed the senses. Paris became the modern city familiar to today’s tourists, with its grand boulevards and sidewalks, its low-rise apartment blocks, its department stores, and its array of parks and gardens.2 It was the centre of intellectual and cultural life, the home of the leading institutions of education, the law and government. For a courtesan like Léon, or an aspiring lawyer like Gambetta, there was no better place to be.]

Published: Nov 16, 2015

Keywords: Urban Renewal; Department Store; February 1879; Grand Boulevard; Country House

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