LITERATURE QUESTIONS
CULTURAL AND LITERARY IN MODERNITY
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It was an urban modernization project that reorganized Parisian city streets so that the bourgeoisie could flaunt their new wealth.
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It was an urban renovation project which offered social services in city slums.
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It was a political movement intended to overthrow Napoleon III.
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It was a religious movement intended to celebrate the values of Christianity.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Haussmanisation of Paris refers to the re-building of Paris by Baron Haussmann in the mid-eighteenth century. When Louis Napoleon III came to power, he appointed haussmann as the chief architect of the new city. He laid out new streets, straight sidewalks, boulevards and open avenues, and planted full-grown trees.
Detailed explanation-2: -Haussmann widened the tight medieval streets into expansive avenues to bring more light and air into the blocks. He annexed the suburbs around the more urban area of Paris, built new sewer systems, and much more.
Detailed explanation-3: -Napoleon III instructed Haussmann to bring air and light to the centre of the city, to unify the different neighbourhoods with boulevards, and to make the city more beautiful.
Detailed explanation-4: -He asked an administrator, Baron Georges-Eugene Haussmann, to modernize Paris-to bring clean water and modern sewers to the fast growing city, to light the streets with gas lanterns, to construct a central market (Les Halles), and to build parks, schools, hospitals, asylums, prisons, and administrative buildings.