George eugene haussmann biography of mahatma gandhi
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Haussmann, Georges-Eugeène
HAUSSMANN, GEORGES-EUGEÈNE (1809–1891), creator of modern Paris.
Georges-Eugène Haussmann was not an architect, an engineer, a city planner, a hydrologist, or a landscape designer.
George eugene haussmann biography of mahatma gandhi
He was a lawyer by education, a career administrator by choice, and the man who created modern Paris (where he was born and where he died).
He pompously (and illegitimately) called himself a baron. His maternal grandfather, a revolutionary and Napoleonic general, Georges-Frédéric Dentzel (1755–1828), had been ennobled during the First Empire, but French titles are not heritable through the female line.
His paternal grandfather, Nicolas Haussmann, also had a revolutionary past. The grandson's administrative career is a classic example of the breach forced by the bourgeoisie into government service during the French Revolution, which was widened by Napoleon's reforms of the state.
Haussmann was educated at the Lycée Henri IV, the best school in Paris, where he made an impor