Between 1880 and 1925, Paris was reinventing itself as a modern city. The process had commenced somewhat earlier, when under Napoleon III (1848-1870) and his prefect of the Seine, Georges-Eugène Haussmann, the heart of old Paris was ripped out. Between 1852 and 1870 wide avenues, squares, new railway stations, and new parks were developed to transform Paris into a mecca for tourism and one that was studded with emblems of modernism. The poor, who previously inhabited these areas, were forced out to the fringes of the city.
This exhibition, , examines aspects of Parisian life drawn from the extensive but relatively little-known collection of the Musée Carnavalet – Histoire de Paris, supplemented with a
