Haussmann and Haussmannisation: The legacy for Paris

French Historical Studies

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 87-112

  Jordan, David P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

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EID: 62749121623     PISSN: 00161071     EISSN: 15275493     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1215/00161071-27-1-87     Document Type: Article

References (30)

1. David P. Jordan, Transforming Paris: The Life and Labors of Baron Haussmann (New York, 1995), reproduces this portrait, between pages 328 and 329
2. and Georges Valance, Haussmann le grand (Paris, 2001)
3. Pierre Pinon, Paris: Biographie d'une capitale (Paris, 1999), 279. Himself an architect by training, Pinon is particularly good on the role of architects in the history of Paris. This is the best recent book on the history of Paris, although, like virtually all work by French scholars, it is indifferent to that of non-Francophone scholars
4. For instance, David Van Zanten, Building Paris: Architectural Institutions and the Transformation of the French Capital, 1830-1870 (Cambridge, 1994), the best study of how buildings got built in the capital, is not mentioned, nor is some recent work on Haussmann
5. Louis Bergeron, "Paysages de Paris," in Paris: Genèse d'un paysage, ed. Louis Bergeron (Paris, 1989), 268
6. Bernard Rouleau, Paris: Histoire d'un espace (Paris, 1997), 364
7. Quoted in Pinon, Paris: Biographie d'une capitale, 218-19. He gives an excellent description of "le paysage haussmannien" (216-17)
8. François Loyer, Paris XIXe siècle: L'immeuble et la rue (Paris, 1987), has a superb set of photographs, mostly his own, showing simultaneously the fundamental uniformity of Haussmann's Paris and the degree of ornamental variation possible; see, among many examples, 165, 178-79, 202-6, 242-43
9. I follow Pinon, Paris: Biographie d'une capitale, 216-17
10. Rouleau, Paris: Histoire d'un espace, 365
11. David Harvey, "Monument and Myth: The Building of the Basilica of the Sacred Heart," in The Urban Experience: Studies in the History and Theory of Capitalist Urbanization (Baltimore, Md., 1989), is a splendid essay on the politics involved in building the church
12. Joseph Harriss, The Tallest Tower: Eiffel and the Belle Epoque (New York, 1975), although popular in approach, is a useful survey of the tower
13. Evenson, Paris: A Century of Change, 149
14. See Gaillard, Paris, la ville, 67ff., for the careful distinctions made between rich, less rich, and poor neighborhoods. The only other project with a strong strategic component - the system of streets on the Left Bank that surrounded the Panthéon neighborhood - was the Third Réseau, the last of Haussmann's transformations, and its purpose was to quarantine a potentially dangerous neighborhood rather than to attack the insurgents
15. Quoted in Pinon, Paris: Biographie d'une capitale, 228
16. Le Corbusier, Urbanisme, 2d ed. (Paris, 1966), 255
17. Jean-Paul Lacaze, Urbanisme d'Etat et destin d'une ville (Paris, 1994), 33
18. Annie Fourcaut, Bobigny, banlieue rouge (Paris, 1986), 13, sees the banlieue rouge as a myth born after the municipal elections of 1924-25
19. See also Marie-Hélène Bacqué and Sylvie Fol, Le devenir des banlieues rouges (Paris, 1997) for a history
20. along with J. Bastié, La croissance de la banlieue (Paris, 1965)
21. Bernard Marchand, Paris: Histoire d'une ville, XIXe-XXe siècle (Paris, 1993), emphasizes the demographic basis for the history of the city
22. Guy Pourcher's Le peuplement de Paris: Origine régionale, composition sociale, attitudes et motivations . . . (Paris, 1964) studies the changing internal migration patterns
23. Gérard Jacquemet, Belleville au XIXème siècle: Du faubourg à la ville (Paris, 1984), provides the background on a neighborhood subsequently transformed by foreign immigration
24. See Jean-Claude Chamboredon, Michel Coste, and Marcel Roncayolo, "Populations et pratiques urbaines," in Histoire de la France urbaine: La ville aujourd'hui, vol. 5, ed. Marcel Roncayolo (Paris, 1985), esp. 441-72
25. See Nathan Silver, The Making of Beaubourg: A Building Biography of the Centre Pompidou, Paris (Cambridge, 1994)
26. See Norma Evenson, "The Passing of the Rue Nationale," in Paris: A Century of Change, 255-64
27. See Jordan, Transforming Paris, 198-200, 201-3, for the psychological motivations of Haussmann's destruction of the Ile de la Cité
28. and Marchand, Paris: Histoire d'une ville, for details
29. "Les Halles: Les études de restauration- réhabilitation," Paris projet, no. 1, July 1969
30. Michel Fleury, in Réau, Histoire du vandalisme, 954, says that 132 buildings in the Halles neighborhood were destroyed between 1970 and 1980