Seven Ages of Paris by Alistair Horne

Author:Alistair Horne [Horne, Alistair]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-0-8041-5169-6
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Published: 2013-11-20T05:00:00+00:00

* The Reds, as they were already called, embraced a wide range of revolutionaries that pre-dated Marxist Communists.

† The Archbishop of Paris died of wounds sustained on the barricades while attempting to mediate. A successor archbishop was taken hostage and executed by the Commune twenty-three years later.

** The daily wage of a Republican deputy.

FOURTEEN

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The Second Empire

We ripped open the belly of old Paris, the neighbourhood of revolt and barricades, and cut a large opening through the almost impenetrable maze of alleys, piece by piece, and put in cross-streets whose continuations terminated the work.

BARON HAUSSMANN, MEÈMOIRES, PP. 54–5

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