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National Gallery photo exhibit looks at ‘Paris in Transition’

by Chuck Myers [McClatchy-Tribune News Service (MCT)]

[19.Apr.07] :. WASHINGTON - In the early 1850s, French Emperor Napoleon III charged urban planner Baron Georges Eugene Haussmann with an important task: Transform outmoded Paris into a modern urban metropolis. The...

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