Urban achievements of the Second Empire in Paris

This article proposes a nonexhaustive list of the principal operations of town plannings realized under the Second Empire. Some of these achievements, planned by the Prefect Haussmann and his administration, will be finished only under the Third Republic.

For a presentation of work haussmanniens as a whole, see the principal article: Transformations of Paris under the Second Empire.

The first two networks

On Right Bank and the Seine:

Boulevard of Sébastopol. It is prolonged by the Boulevard of the Palate on the Île of the City and by the Boulevard Saint-Michel on left bank.
installation of the Markets, project launched by Rambuteau and concluded by Baltard.
the Île of the City is refitted. Only the Dauphine part and the district located between Notre-Dame de Paris and the Quai of the Flowers are preserved. Apart from the historic buildings (Notre-Dame, the Ste Chapelle, Conciergerie), the remainder of the island is shaved and replaced by public equipment (Hospital, Bankruptcy court, barracks of the City which will become the Police headquarter, as well as the Western part of the law courts) or of free spaces (square of Notre-Dame and gardens). All the current bridges are built, rebuilt or (in the case of the New Pont) are transformed in an important way.
the Street of Rivoli, created by Napoleon i along Tileries, is prolonged in direction of the Châtelet, then of the Rue Saint-Anthony. This axis does not have however the same width as the boulevards.
Boulevard Richard-Lenoir, Boulevard Voltaire (11th).
Boulevard Diderot (12th).
network of the avenues of the Place of the Star (8th and 16th).
Which occurred of the Opera (1st, 2nd).

On left bank:

Boulevard Saint-Michel: it replaces part of the old street of Hell.
Street of the Schools
Boulevard Saint-Germain
Street Monge, Street Gay-Lussac (5th): they prolong the Avenue Goblins (13th and 5th) which replaces part of the Rue Mouffetard.
Street of Rennes (5th): it will stop with the Saint-Germain boulevard whereas it was at the origin to join the Seine. For this reason, its classification starts to the 41.
Boulevard Saint-Marcel, Boulevard Arago, Boulevard of Port-Royal (13th, 14th).
Which occurred Duquesne, Which occurred Thicket, Which occurred Rapp (7th).

The third network

A long axis crosses 19th, 20th and 12th districts, parallel to the wall of the Farmers general and with the enclosure of Thiers (current boulevards of the Marshals): Street Simon-Bolivar, Street of the Pyrenees, Which occurred Michel-Bizot.

Other axes make it possible to cross these districts in direction of the center:

Which occurred Daumesnil (12th)
streets street Jeanne-in Arc and of Patay (13th)
which occurred Henri-Martin and Foch (16th)
Boulevard Malesherbes, Street of Rome (17th)
boulevards Ornano and Barbs (18th)

Place-crossroads

The interconnection between the grand boulevards imposes the creation of places on their measurement. Châtelet, arranged by Davioud, is the crossroads between the two main roads crossing Paris of north in the south and the east in the west. Work of Haussmann arranges other great places:

Place Leon-Blum
Place of the Republic
Place of Alma
Place of the Star

Bridges

One refits or builds several bridges since the entry of the Seine in Paris to his exit:

Bridge National (1852)
Bridge of Bercy (1864)
Bridge of Austerlitz, rebuilt (1854)
Bridge Louis-Philippe (1862)
Bridge of Arcole (1854)
Small-Bridge and Bridge Notre-Dame, rebuilt (1853)
Bridge Saint-Michel (1857) and Bridge with the Exchange (1859)
Bridge of Solférino (1860)
Bridge of the Invalids, rebuilt, and Bridge of Alma, built (World Fair of 1855)
Viaduct of Auteuil (1862), used by the railroad of the Small Belt

Stations and axes connecting them

Stations are built:

Gare de Lyon (1855, remade in 1900)
Station of North (Hittorff, 1865)

Haussmann facilitates the access to the stations:

streets of Le Havre and Auber (Station Saint-Lazare).
boulevards of Strasbourg and of Magenta (station of North and Station of the East).
Street of Châteaudun and Street of Maubeuge, which connect the Saint-Lazare station to the station of North.
Boulevard Diderot (Gare de Lyon).
boulevards Saint-Marcel and Arago (Station of Austerlitz).
Boulevard of Port-Royal and Street of Rennes (Station Montparnasse, then located at the current site of the Turn Montparnasse). The street of Rennes, which was to continue to the Seine, remained unfinished.

See too

the principal article: Transformations of Paris under the Second Empire

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