Georges-Eugène Haussmann, commonly known as Baron Haussmann, was a French official who served as prefect of Seine (1853–1870), chosen by Emperor Napoleon III to carry out a massive urban renewal programme of new boulevards, parks and public works in Paris commonly referred to as Haussmann's renovation of Paris.
Georges-Eugène Haussmann
Napoleon handing over to Baron Haussmann the decree of annexation of suburban communes to Paris (1860), by Adolphe Yvon The annexation increased the city from twelve to the present twenty arrondissements.
The Avenue de l'Opéra, one of the new boulevards created by Napoleon III and Haussmann. The new buildings on the boulevards were required to be all of the same height and same basic façade design, and all faced with cream-coloured stone, giving the city center its distinctive harmony.
The Paris Opera was the centerpiece of Napoleon III's new Paris. The architect, Charles Garnier, described the style simply as "Napoleon the Third".
Napoleon III was the first president of France from 1848 to 1852, and the last monarch of France as Emperor of the French from 1852 until he was deposed on 4 September 1870.
Portrait of Napoleon III, 1862
Louis Bonaparte, King of Holland (1778–1846), the younger brother of Napoleon Bonaparte and father of Napoleon III
Hortense de Beauharnais (1783–1837), mother of Napoleon III
The lakeside house at Arenenberg, Switzerland, where Louis Napoleon spent much of his youth and exile
