Georges-Eugène Haussmann, The Man Who Rebuilt Paris 

Haussmann....Not pronounced like HG is doing: OSS-MAN

Literally, the word Literally is literally incorrectly used by literally many people lately

He really ended the spirit of 1848

Yeah he was a fucking dictator that ended the 2nd republic. A traitor and a lame imitation.

It was inevitable France would become a republic again. But had he kept out if foreign affairs and stuck to domestic matters he’d be remembered as a reformer king, the man who modernized France.

@@dkupkeagreed

It's that uniformity that makes it so that you can take a photo from almost anywhere in Paris and people know it's Paris. But it's a beautiful uniformity, not the dystopian uniformity of an American suburb with its tract housing and streets devoid of life and personality.

I agree with you but it's not that mysteriously. Aside a skyscraper you feel much smaller and weaker but six units high aren't too much. The building looks somewhat all the same but they have small difference and they have a beautiful decoration on the front. Every building exactly the same would be bad but every building very unique wouldn't be so much better. This also includes the height of the building.

Human scale.

Not a skyscraper to be seen (within the peripherique), and yet, the population tops 2 million! All within 41 square miles.

What ?

Il n'y a aucun doute, la cathédrale Notre Dame sera reconstruite à l'identique. It is the most beloved monument in Paris by all Parisian and French people.

It worked because when they tore it down, it was replaced with something equally beautiful. That was before The Architectural Profession was taken over and subverted. If they did the same thing today, we would get ugly glass buildings and brutalist commie blocks Architects tried to ruin Notre Dame, but thankfully the French Parliament stepped in and prevented Architects from ruining it with the rebuild going on.

@@JohnDoe-vm2di I completely agee with you, although I wouldn't call the modern glass buildings of today "brutalist commie blocks" .. they're very much capitalistic lol

and they're also glass so they aren't brutalist either...

@@ganginfr4923 Didn't say glass buildings were brutalist, but they both have a depressing soul-less vibe.

glass buildings will be timeless

Badoumtsing!

@@plugs313 I think you flushed him out.

@Rob Rage Not to mention the "Great Stink" in London ...

@Rob Rage the White River in Indy has a constant smell somewhere between rotting fish, corpses, and sewage.

That's OK. Everyone else has left the building.

businesses as well.

Crap accounted for, quite literally.

The new stuff built in the 60s was generally a mistake though :(

@@LondonReps Why?

@@thephoenix756 Let's say that post-modernist architecture is not the prettiest XD

@@castellanos6436 Brutalism.

@@kiwitrainguy Some brutalist buildings are not that bad: a very few of them are interesting looking. But the avarage post-modern building is generally soulless and uninspiring in my opinion.

When London was rebuilt after the Great Fire, the city's landowners ensured the old street-plan was respected. Wren wanted to "do a Housman", but was not allowed.

Or a fire like Chicago. I love how downtown Chicago streets are. Perfect grid. Very hard to get lost. When I was riding around on the streets of London, I couldn't tell which direction I was headed half the time. That's probably why I stuck to the Tube more.

Aaaah "The American Thinking-Class", how much shallower that pool has become.....

@@goodun6081 That's History that definitely needs to be Remembered. One Man to stand alone. Against a bunch of yes men. Semper Fi

Your life can only be better for it. Because this guy could of made me want to go to school.

@@andyZ3500s I got tired of hearing about Paul Revere,3rd,5th,8th11th,12th grades. Some how I figured there was a LOT more to history.

Always better late than never. Today is the first day of the rest of your life.

Matt Temple ...Even the ones you don’t think will be interesting are a revelation.

You will NOT regret your decision---guaranteed.

Yes and no: designer SAID he didn't make it Riot Proof so he didn't get on the bad side of people who like to riot a lot :D But he worked for the Emprah so he probably was told: GET RID of the fucking ghettos they keep revolting. And they are revolting.

Narrow roads like they had would make it easier to defend since it would force your enemy to attack you one at a time vs on wide front. Wider roads would make it easier for the enemy to penetrate the core of the city in large numbers. P.S. I think your history teachers were confusing Paris for the US highway system. It wouldn't be the first time a history teacher got it wrong.

Hoehner Tim I think it was about making it harder for rebels to build barricades. So it was - apparently - an internal security issue in response to the European revolutions of 1848 rather than as a defence measure.

@@bob_the_bomb4508 Thanks. Maybe that's what I'm remembering. I remember some reference as well to a limit on the height of the buildings, so as not to obstruct the view to the outskirts of the city from some central location.

Sean Kerns that's possible, but those apartment buildings were pretty much the limit at which you'd want to drag up two bags of groceries. I doubt they could have been made much higher anyway!

The concept of 'Eminent Domain' begins and ends with modern Paris, as does the school of Civil Engineering.

Went to Paris just once and I greatly hope to visit it again! I'm really a country boy at heart, and an American, but my wife and I love Paris. Never felt so comfortable in any other large city before. Although we also liked Barcelona quite a bit.

@@goodun6081 Check out the Rick Steves video on how to prepare for Paris (skipping lines and such), waste of time waiting in line. Just take your time to see ONE thing, don't be affraid to be missing out on something. I'd also recommend walking once in the centre, instead of metro.

@@mikehydropneumatic2583 , we probably walked three or four miles per day. We might take the metro to the general area or attraction we wanted to visit, and then hoof it on foot the rest of the way. I remember leaving the Louvre, which is the only place we really waited in any kind of long line, and heading on foot to the Tuilleries gardens, except that we got a little lost and walked way past that area, but we met a young lady from Boston who was finishing her master's degree in Paris. She got us back on track in the right direction. It was interesting to hear that finishing her Master's, in math, in Paris would save her $18,000 versus doing it in the states. Anyway, we're not afraid to get a little bit lost and maybe have an unexpected or serendipitous experience along the way. We stayed in the Left Bank, by the way, in an old hotel, which turned out to be a great spot with lots of things within walking distance, including the Islamic Museum and Notre Dame. Seeing impressionist paintings at the musee D'Orsay was one of my favorite bits. My wife is still mad at me for refusing to wait in line to get on to the Eiffel Tower, but I don't like that kind of tourist attraction, nor do I like long lines.

That may have been mostly true long ago, but in the age of modern science, it's most definitely not.

@@lordgarion514 think about it - when a team "invents" something, it's actually one member of the team that makes a first suggestion, without which there would be no invention.

@@commander31able60 Like I said, that's not really how it works anymore. Things are far too complex at the scales we work at now. For example, the team that invented the blue ray player had to use dozens of unrelated inventions going back decades to make it. And in fact, not one person on the team that invented the blue ray invented anything. No one had a "eureka" moment. The days of someone going into a lab and coming out with a new product are over.

@@commander31able60 Also, we're at the point now where there's as many "what the hell was that" moments as there are flashes of genius, mostly courtesy of the weirdness of quantum mechanics of course. I'm not saying there's never flashes of genius, but generally speaking, they come during, and not before research and development get started.

@@lordgarion514 but who had the original idea, the impetus to make a blueray player?

It's because that in 1974 the president stopped the construction of tall sckyscrapers. But it was recently allowed again. Catacombs and mines are not found everywhere, only in some places.

@@debranchelowtone I hope they don't ruin the Paris aesthetic with out of place glass skyscrapers like happened in London.

@@rexx9496 It will probably be on the outskirts, but some nice houses are destroyed and replaced by small modern buildings on the inner town, some gems are already gone.

Tucsoncoyote ~ I agree, I’m familiar with the Johnstown flood and that would be a great History Remembered video.

Seconded.

The code talkers, thirded!

There was some American Indians that performed a similar service in the great war.

There were more than the Navajo. involved. Multiple tribes.

rutabagasteu Well, guess what? The Navajo had a better PR Department...

My friend was just there as well recently. With all the Protesting riots, and crap, she didn't care too much about Paris.

@Tucsoncoyote 2019 , Sir your right about the swamp/marsh, but that was before it was filled in. I would contend that the smell now is all the crap being spewed out of the mouths of Congressmen/women, not the other way around !

This is very true. My grandfathers were both there during WW2, he said the people were filthy, I said it was a war.. He said, no that's not it. Years later my girlfriend's husband was stationed in Germany and she and some other women went to France in the early 90's. She said that she would never go back. That it was filthy and she's not known to be as picky as me!

@@kevynhansyn2902 unfortunately the french have always been known to be dirty and my comment above were a couple of observations way before the yellow vest protests. The filth your friend saw there is more the invasion of illegals their filthy government have foisted upon them. But filth is what u get with globalists

@@dawnyockey1475 How extraordinary ! A man able to shit throuh his mouth ! I wonder where you put your food.

the grand avenues also allowed the military to subdue the legendary paris mobs . cannon fire could dominate the city fiing down these long vistas, the mob could no longer use a warren of narrow twisted lanes to ambush opposing forces.

That wonderfull book is the reason why my wife chose Paris to be her very first European trip. We definitely hope to do it again!

Most European buildings are only as old as the historic districts of American Cities. Old New York City actually had similarities to Paris in terms of architecture and application. But New York was never as dense as Paris, so the property owners had more freedom of design decisions.