HIST 276: France Since 1871
Lecture 11 - Paris and the Belle Epoque. Modern Paris was indelibly shaped by the rebuilding project ordered by Napoleon III and carried out by Baron Haussmann in the 1850s and '60s. The large-scale demolition of whole neighborhoods in central Paris, coupled with a boom in industrial development outside the city, cemented a class division between center and periphery that has persisted into the twenty-first century. Curiously, this division is the obverse of the arrangement of most American cities, in which the inner city is typically impoverished while the suburbs are wealthy. (from oyc.yale.edu)
| Lecture 11 - Paris and the Belle Epoque |
| Time | Lecture Chapters |
| [00:00:00] | 1. The Old Paris: A Portrait of Urban Poverty |
| [00:07:27] | 2. Napoleon III and Haussmann: Building the Boulevards of Modern Paris |
| [00:19:09] | 3. New Modes of Commerce in Belle Epoque Paris |
| [00:23:00] | 4. The East-West Dichotomy: Mapping the Character of the New Neighborhoods |
| [00:38:23] | 5. Exile from the Center: The Development of Working Class Suburbia |
| References |
| Lecture 11 - Paris and the Belle Epoque Instructor: Professor John Merriman. Transcript [html]. Audio [mp3]. Download Video [mov]. |
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