A classic history of the creation of modern Paris by Napoleon III and Haussmann
In this absorbing narrative of the fall of the last Bourbon Monarch, David H. Pinkney resconstructs events in France during the seventeen critical months between August 1829 and December 1830. Beginning with the formation of the...
David Pinkney challenges accepted views of the timing of France's Industrial Revolution and the accompanying transformation of French society.Originally published in 1986.
