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Georges-Eugène Haussmann

1809 - 1891

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Georges-Eugène Haussmann, commonly known as Baron Haussmann (French: [ʒɔʁʒ øʒɛn (baʁɔ̃) osman]; 27 March 1809 – 11 January 1891), was a French official who served as prefect of Seine (1853–1870), chosen by Emperor Napoleon III to carry out a massive urban renewal programme of new boulevards, parks and public works in Paris commonly referred to as Haussmann's renovation of Paris. Critics forced his resignation for extravagance, but his vision of the city still dominates central Paris. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Georges-Eugène Haussmann has received more than 908,841 page views. His biography is available in 52 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 50 in 2019). Georges-Eugène Haussmann is the 22nd most popular architect (up from 27th in 2019), the 331st most popular biography from France (up from 380th in 2019) and the most popular French Architect.

Haussmann is most famous for his work as the Prefect of the Seine under Napoleon III. He is responsible for the transformation of Paris into the modern city we know today.

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Among ARCHITECTS

Among architects, Georges-Eugène Haussmann ranks 22 out of 424. Before him are Louis Sullivan, Zaha Hadid, Khufu, Francesco Borromini, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, and Norman Foster, Baron Foster of Thames Bank. After him are Renzo Piano, Frank Gehry, Otto Wagner, Victor Horta, Adolf Loos, and Apollodorus of Damascus.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1809, Georges-Eugène Haussmann ranks 8. Before him are Edgar Allan Poe, Abraham Lincoln, Felix Mendelssohn, Louis Braille, Nikolai Gogol, and Pierre-Joseph Proudhon. After him are Bruno Bauer, Albert Pike, William Ewart Gladstone, Joseph Liouville, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, and Hermann Grassmann. Among people deceased in 1891, Georges-Eugène Haussmann ranks 7. Before him are Arthur Rimbaud, Georges Seurat, Nikolaus Otto, Helena Blavatsky, Herman Melville, and Helmuth von Moltke the Elder. After him are P. T. Barnum, Pedro II of Brazil, Léo Delibes, Sofia Kovalevskaya, Wilhelm Eduard Weber, and Theo van Gogh.

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In France

Among people born in France, Georges-Eugène Haussmann ranks 331 out of 6,011. Before him are Honoré Gabriel Riqueti, comte de Mirabeau (1749), Denis Papin (1647), Marcel Marceau (1923), Henry VII, Holy Roman Emperor (1275), Claude of France (1499), and Olivier Messiaen (1908). After him are François Couperin (1668), Robert Guiscard (1016), Jean-Baptiste Say (1767), Mireille Mathieu (1946), Philippe II, Duke of Orléans (1674), and Diane de Poitiers (1499).

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Among ARCHITECTS In France

Among architects born in France, Georges-Eugène Haussmann ranks 1. After him are Eugène Viollet-le-Duc (1814), André Le Nôtre (1613), François Mansart (1598), Jules Hardouin-Mansart (1646), Louis Le Vau (1612), Jean Nouvel (1945), Charles Garnier (1825), Hector Guimard (1867), Ferdinand Cheval (1836), Francesco Bartolomeo Rastrelli (1700), and Claude Nicolas Ledoux (1736).

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