An account of the reinvention of Paris in the mid-nineteenth century as the most beautiful, exciting city in the world - a position it has never relinquished.

Account of the reinvention of Paris in the mid-19th century, charting the 15-year project which war, revolution, corruption and bankruptcy couldn't stop.

It is attention to such detail that makes this witty, erudite historical essay on Paris's Haussmann years such an evocative read' The Spectator.