PARIS, ROMAN D'UNE VILLE

of NEUMANN Stan

FRANCE, 1991, 00:50:00

Production : CAISSE NATIONALE DES MONUMENTS HISTORIQUES, CNC, DIRECTION DU PATRIMOINE, LA SEPT, LES FILMS D'ICI, MINISTERE DE L'EQUIPEMENT, MUSEE D'ORSAY, VIDEOTHEQUE DE LA VILLE DE PARIS
Collection : Musée d'Orsay
Genre : Documentary
Keyword : History, Society, Town planning

Summary :
At the time of the Revolution, Paris was still a medieval town. 100 years later, it was a model of city, the reference for all European cities. The way its mutation was organized and contained is the reason for its originality. The most common opinion is that Haussmann’s plans are a kind of urban vandalism prefiguring the great modern vandalizings. The camera stops in the middle of boulevards, scrutinizes buildings’ fronts, crosses buildings, takes us from bourgeois flats to maids’ rooms and highlights the framework of the urban canvas, makes us discover a different Paris.

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