Show PARIS REALLY MODERN CITY its present magnificence may be said to date from napoleon III and the yar 1834 so massive and stately in appearance is I 1 paris today that it is sometimes difficult to realize how recently the city took on oil its present form A reminder of the relative newness of so some file of its main features comes in III the pro project eject of the city administration to complete the boulevard by ka pio longing it to the boulevard des Tt Ti aliens As late as 1834 b but lit ii a few years before rugene eugene cleol george ge gaii under Ka napoleon III began I 1 to demolish streets and rows raws of old houses that clogged the hie heart of the city in order to t build in their stend stead the now famous straight wide and long thorough thoroughfares li fares much of the old style of things drainage was primitiv primitive mitiZ e suspended oil lamps lighted the streets paved sidewalks hardly existed but little more than thirty years later when the international exhibition was held in the city paris had become perhaps the most imposing of european capitals and an illustrious example of the great art of city planning |