Acrylic on canvas

Signature on the back

50 x 50 x 3,5 cm.

19.7 x 19.7 x 1.4 inch.

Unique

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The Famous French Collection

Napoleon III spent years exiled in London. He came back with an idea: Paris should be able to compete with the city that had once jailed his uncle.

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He handed the job to Baron Haussmann. Wide boulevards, uniform façades, parks, sewers, an entire capital rebuilt from the ground up. Critics called it reckless spending. Haussmann didn't slow down.

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The Paris everyone photographs today is still, largely, his.