Georges-Eugène Haussmann
French official and politician (1809-1891)
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He tore down medieval Paris and built the city the world recognizes now: the grand boulevards, the gas-lit avenues, the Opera crowning it all. By 1870 one in five streets in the center were his, and critics hated him enough to force him out.
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Georges-Eugène Haussmann moved through three prefectures — Var, Yonne, Gironde — before Napoleon III appointed him to Paris in 1853, where his administrative precision met imperial ambition. He rebuilt the capital above and below ground: miles of new sewers ran beside gas pipes feeding thousands of streetlights, while Charles Garnier's Paris Opera, the largest theatre in the world, rose as the signature landmark. With Adolphe Alphand he laid out four major parks at the compass points — Bois de Boulogne west, Bois de Vincennes east, Parc des Buttes Chaumont north, Parc Montsouris south — an imm…
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