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Stephane Kirkland

Biography

Stephane Kirkland

Stephane Kirkland holds advanced degrees in architecture and art history and has worked as an architect and as a consultant. He now shares his time between Brooklyn and Paris, writing about architecture, urban planning and history. He is the author of PARIS REBORN.

Stephane Kirkland

Books by Stephane Kirkland

Paris Reborn: Napoleon III, Baron Haussmann, and the Quest to Build a Modern City
by Stephane Kirkland - Architecture, History, Nonfiction

In the mid-19th century, the Paris we know today was born, the vision of two extraordinary men: the endlessly ambitious Emperor Napoléon III and his unstoppable accomplice, Baron Haussmann. PARIS REBORN is the vivid and engrossing account of the greatest transformation of a major city in modern history. It's a must-read for anyone who ever wondered how Paris, the city universally admired as a standard of urban beauty, became what it is.