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Notre Dame review – glorious resurrection is as close to time travel as it gets

AOL 06 Dec 2024
The city is unusual in having a dual water network, one for drinking water and another for untreated non-potable water, for irrigation, cleaning and firefighting – a 19th-century legacy of Baron Haussmann’s urban improvements ... .
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Home \u0026 Loggia Calendar: A sampling of events in Palm Beach and vicinity

Palm Beach Daily News 29 Nov 2024
All events will take place in Palm Beach unless otherwise noted ... HOLIDAY EVENTS AT WHITEHALL ... Dec ... Admission ... Dec ... He will discuss how French Emperor Napoleon III and Baron Haussmann commissioned Charles Garnier to create this architectural masterpiece.
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‘They look like homes for rich people’: why Britain should look to Europe for its council housing revolution

The Observer 10 Nov 2024
... an apartment block with a timber structure and rammed earth walls, the materials of desert villages imported to the stone city of Baron Haussmann, in the interests of a stylish kind of ecology.
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Why Alice Munro’s Work Felt so Empty

The Atlantic 18 Aug 2024
Sign up for it here ... D ... S ... S. Eliot. Now I’m not so sure ... [ Related. T. S ... All of this followed nearly 20 years—less bloody but no less disorienting—of destruction and reconstruction in medieval Paris by Napoleon III and his chief architect, Baron Haussmann ... .
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It has been a great Olympics but Parisians fled like extras in a disaster movie

The Daily Telegraph 11 Aug 2024
Paris, it is often said, would be a wonderful place were it not for the Parisians ... Even President Macron has followed the trend ... an island fort off the Mediterranean coast ... a million cuckoos in Baron Haussmann’s magnificent nest. .
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Roundup: Paris special Olympic legacy for future -- improved quality of Seine's water

China.dot.org 08 Aug 2024
PARIS, Aug ... Thanks to the major urban renovation led by Baron Haussmann, the then prefect of the Seine appointed by Napoleon III, Paris saw the construction of a gigantic sewer system in the mid-19th century ... This ban remained for 100 years ... Enditem .
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The Seine River Was Swimmable … Today

The Atlantic 31 Jul 2024
... excrement, black from tanners’ dyes and rot.” In the 19th century, Baron Haussmann and his brigade of engineers and laborers expanded the sewer network, and once-open trenches were hidden underground.
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Paris Olympics is not just sport: it is about presenting a new French identity to the world

The Observer 29 Jul 2024
Paris 2024 is about the reinvention of France’s capital city and its banlieue, a colossal project which the French administration hopes will rival what Baron Haussmann did with Paris intra-muros in ...
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Paris’s department stores transformed urban life. What can they teach today’s struggling shops?

AOL 25 Jul 2024
The only thing missing from this temple of modern shopping? Customers ... Sited at key points along the imposing new boulevards laid out in Baron Haussmann’s rebuilding of Paris, these cathedrals of commerce were built on a pharaonic scale ... .
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Paris Olympics can help unify a fractured city

Taipei Times 24 Jul 2024
By Lionel Laurent / Bloomberg Opinion ... It is a project that has none of the glamor of Baron Haussmann’s iconic reshaping of Paris in the 19th century, which gave us landmarks like the Opera Garnier, and the wide and airy boulevards that bear his name.
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Step away from the Games: four unsung Paris museums to visit during the Olympics

The Observer 24 Jul 2024
City of Architecture and Heritage ... One model of Paris shows changes made to the city by Baron Haussmann from 1854; another shows an apartment from Le Corbusier’s post-second world war Cité Radieuse in Marseille ... View image in fullscreen ... Photograph ... .
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Can Paris Really Clean Up the Seine Before the 2024 Olympics?

New York Observer 12 Jul 2024
The question is ... Sign Up For Our Daily Newsletter. Sign Up ... In the 19th century, George-Eugène Haussmann, known as Baron Haussmann, undertook a vast public works project to revitalize Paris’ city center under the direction and funding of Napoleon.
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Top wine spots: 23 Naples, Fort Myers, Marco, Bonita restaurants among best in world

News-Press - Fort Myers 29 Jun 2024
Wine Spectator magazine has announced its annual “Restaurant Awards” winners for 2024 ... Fun fact ... How it works ... Here's the thing ... Adding to the atmosphere, guests can dine outdoors beneath arches that recall the Parisian architecture of Baron Haussmann.".

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