CONTENTS

Cover

Title Page

Dedication

Map

Prologue

1 Louis Napoléon and the Second Empire

2 The Problem of Paris

3 Marvels of the New Babylon

4 Pleasures of the New Babylon

5 Haussmann’s Downfall

6 The End of the Second Empire

7 Paris’s Civil War

Epilogue

Acknowledgments

About the Author

Also by Rupert Christiansen

Chronology

Further Reading

Notes

Index