Haussmann

[ hous-muhn; French ohs-man ]

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Georges Eu·gène [zhaw, r, zh , œ, -, zhen], Baron, 1809–91, French administrator who improved the landscaping, street designs, and utilities systems of Paris.

Haussmann

/ əsmən /

HaussmannGeorges-Eugène, Baron18091891MFrenchMISC: town planner Georges-Eugène, Baron. 1809–91, French town planner, noted for his major rebuilding of Paris in the reign of Napoleon III

The Haussmann urban-renewal project demolished old neighborhoods.

Paris is always Paris, and always will be, in spite of the immortal Haussmann, both for those who love it and for those who don't.

In the notorious chamber of Valentine Haussmann the corpse of Dombrowski was laid out upon a bed of blue satin.

The two great latter-day Paris boulevards are boulevard Haussmann and boulevard Malesherbes.

Besides, the flat in the Boulevard Haussmann was plaguing her to death.

We were guests of my fathers old friends, Mr. and Mrs. Talmadge, Boulevard Haussmann, and a complete change of scene it was.

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