"NEW RUES OF PARIS" (by Baron Haussmann) - "The Decree of 24 - Lot 447

"NEW RUES OF PARIS" (by Baron Haussmann) - "The Decree of 24 August last, by renaming nearly 200 streets or public highways in Paris, has just inaugurated a reform to which we applaud without reservation. For arbitrary or inexplicable names, it substitutes names of famous or useful men, whose fame it thus popularizes and whose memory it consecrates forever, let us add that since the annexation to the Capital, of all suburban communes, most of the former names were duplicated or triple used... We thought that a short notice on each of the 200 new sponsors would be of some interest." - Sold at VERT frères in Paris, rue du perrtour St-Gervais, 8, behind the Napoleon Barracks. - (around 1864). Display (55 x 44) Status B