Baron Haussmann
Born on March 27, 1809 from a Protestant family with origins from Germany, Baron Georges-Eugene Haussmann was a French civic planner who is known for the rebuilding, hero, and destroyer of Paris, France. He gained much of his education from the College Henry IV. From College Henry IV he studied law while simultaneously attending classes at the Paris conservatoire of music. In 1830 Haussmann became what was known as the sous-prefet of Nerac and in 1853 Haussmann was chosen by Persigny for he would be prefect of the Seine Department, which was a department of France surrounding Paris and its suburbs. Many of Baron Haussmann’s works gave him a certain reputation as mainly a hero of Paris. Although many may have seen him as a hero, there were those that saw him as a destroyer of Paris because his work in rebuilding the city and destroying the social fabric of the city.
During the period between the Revolution of 1789 and Haussmann’s rebuilding of Paris in the......
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