The Little Known Partnership that Made Modern Paris

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@Dark-Horse-666 2 ай бұрын

I'm currently in Paris for the Olympics... This city is so SO SO beautiful!🤩 Arts, culture & history are everywhere & surprisingly these French are not so bad!

@TheDailyConversation 2 ай бұрын

Awesome. What events have you attended?

@guillaume5156 2 ай бұрын

We can take the not so bad as a compliment 😅

@bastiennietveld7128 2 ай бұрын

❤ you're welcom. Enjoy your stay !

@vincenzo3908 2 ай бұрын

He said we are not so bad 🥹🫶🫶🫶

@brunolescene4475 2 ай бұрын

Profitez bien de votre séjour dans notre belle capitale 🖖

@magoryn 2 ай бұрын

Even as a French, I'm stuned everytime I go downtown Paris. Beauty is everywhere.

@sherriziegel 2 ай бұрын

is it the wide boulevards with their uniform architecture that you like about Paris or is it the dense, intimate neighborhoods? Haussmann's architectural vision was no better than his politics. He wanted a city where an army could move freely without being obstructed. Fortunately he failed to gut most of the city.

@magoryn 2 ай бұрын

@@sherriziegel Have you ever been to Paris ?

@sherriziegel 2 ай бұрын

@@magoryn 30-40 times - first time in 1976, last time less than a year ago. By far the worst thing about Paris is the wide boulevards full of cars, pollution, noise and danger. The wholesale destruction of historic neighborhoods in favor of 'modern' ones is never a good idea.

@antoinesimon6126 2 ай бұрын

You're not the urbanist you think you are, Paris is closing streets to cars, building new bike lanes and expanding it's public transportation infrastructures at a pace no other major western city can even compete with. Yes Paris still has problems with pollution and cars but it is going the right way and I believe it's one of the most liveable city of this size

@magoryn 2 ай бұрын

@@sherriziegel Your are talking about real ecoligical problems. I'm talking about beauty. Give me one huge city as beautifull as Paris.

@LouDelannay 2 ай бұрын

As a french I am grateful to Napoléon III and baron Haussmann 👏

@Eccoriens80 2 ай бұрын

Vous pouvez l'écrire en français 😉

@MLegpres65 2 ай бұрын

@@Eccoriens80 I think he just wanted to express his appreciation to the international audience of YT :-)

@Eccoriens80 2 ай бұрын

@@MLegpres65 Avec Google traductions, on a le droit (encore) d'apprécier d'autres langues que l'anglais.

@lesamisdelacuisineprovenca9534 2 ай бұрын

Ils ont massacré le Paris du moyen-âge et de l'antiquité ! Beaucoup de preuves archéologiques de ces périodes ont été irrémédiablement perdues !

@Diegomax22 Ай бұрын

Sans eux, Paris n’aurait jamais été aussi beau. Une ville du Moyen-Âge avec un charme mais moins imposant.

@thedamnedatheist 2 ай бұрын

Napoleon 3 & Haussman may have had big egos, but they were earned with the renewal of Paris.

@blackvikingeire 2 ай бұрын

That's not the Napoleon you are thinking about.

@JeremyMontejo16 2 күн бұрын

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@kandiharper 2 ай бұрын

Great video, as expected. Love the tone of your videos! ❤

@TheDailyConversation 2 ай бұрын

Thank you!

@nco1970 2 ай бұрын

Apart from the cholera and the demonstrations, the barricades, there was also the Great Fire in London which was a motivation behind the redesigning of Paris.

@44irwi 2 ай бұрын

That is partly why the French were so proud about the 2024 Olympics Opening Ceremony, before it was routed in centuries of Paris architecture. It was the ceremony of Haussman, Eiffel and Viollet-le-Duc as much as the ceremony of Thomas Joly.

@Adriano66867 26 күн бұрын

Absolute stunning city, a masterpiece and example of urban planning Donne right!

@kimlaursen8224 2 ай бұрын

Paris❤

@KyrilPG 2 ай бұрын

Great video! The Grand Paris Express expected ridership increase has been revised from 2+ to 3+ million daily. Over 100 km of new lines have already been dug as of a few months ago. And all extensions to existing lines were opened this June.

@TheDailyConversation 2 ай бұрын

Thank you for the added info. Looking forward to visiting again and spending a few days just riding around and exploring all the places the system goes!

@KyrilPG 2 ай бұрын

@@TheDailyConversation You're welcome! The new Northern terminus of M14 and soon to be new mega hub of the GPE, Saint-Denis Pleyel station, is really gorgeous. It really is worth a visit next time you're in Paris. There are massive banks of escalators crisscrossing a light pit, like a fault-line (there are 56 escalators in the station). The views from the lower level are stunning. Line 14 should reach top frequency again in a few months. Right now, they are operating with an incomplete fleet after the extensions opening, due to a delay in the delivery of the new trains. There should be 72 8-car trains operating simultaneously on M14, but they only have 55 or 56 right now if I'm not mistaken, so frequency is limited to 105 or 125 seconds between departures during rush hour. It should be back to 80-85 seconds around December or January, which will be very helpful to cope with the million passengers expected daily on this extended line. The new Orly airport station is also quite beautiful, with a large Portuguese azulejos mural in the atrium, even though only half is can currently be seen and accessed. The second half should open in 2026 (or 2027?) if I recall correctly, with the first section of M18. The unaccessible part of the station is very well hidden behind fake walls, so everything appears normal and complete. In December, the Villejuif Gustave Roussy interchange station will open on M14. It's a massive underground cylinder with M14 crossing it in a tunnel-bridge. They've built an entanglement of brushed metal escalators inside the huge cylinder, it's visually stunning. The South section of M15 will begin serving this station a year later in late 2025. If you're into infrastructure, transportation architecture, and transit in general, the years to come in Paris are going to be epic, with new locations opening pretty much every year. In 2024 alone, there are over 30 kilometers of new rail based line extensions and 24 new stations (RER E, Metro 11 & 14, and tramway T3b). In 2025, in the summer there'll be a new 5-station 4.5km urban transit gondola line called Cable C1 extending metro line 8 from its Southeastern terminus, plus the opening in the 4th trimester of the first section of M15, the South one, with 36km of tunnels and 16 large stations. 2026 should see the opening of sections of M16, M17, and M18. Then every year till 2030-2032, there'll be new sections opening. A new 19th metro line has also been proposed and has entered the first steps of design. It's really exciting and transformational...

@FGH9G 2 ай бұрын

So I guess you can call Baron Haussmann's Renovation of Paris one of the earliest examples of urban renewal. It's a shame that he changed Ile de la Cite beyond recognition with the exception of the Notre Dame. It would be so cool to be able to live on the same island as the Notre Dame, albeit it would most likely be ridiculously expensive.

@nco1970 2 ай бұрын

There are people living on the Ile de la Cite, 1327 in 1999 and 891 in 2016. The decrease is due to owners switching to temporary rentals for tourists. And, of course, there is the Ile Saint-Louis linked to the Ile de la Cite by a bridge with 2984 inhabitants in 1999 and 2323 in 2016 (the same: switch to temporary rentals for tourists).

@PaleoalexPicturesLtd 2 ай бұрын

It is ridiculously expensive already x)

@manuelcunharocha8889 2 ай бұрын

You're back!

@TheAZPro-yi8bu 2 ай бұрын

Oui!

@jplully 2 ай бұрын

Emperor Napoleon III , my best-known customer, proud. 😊. Got to do some artwork for his crypt in Farnborough

@brunolescene4475 2 ай бұрын

Quoi qu'on en dise ,le centre de Paris est vraiment somptueux 🖖

@vicdu18300 2 ай бұрын

Larger street meant that it was easier for canons to be manipulated and soldiers to counter-attack during uprisings. Also, a lot of people were drawn out of the city because of the evictions and replaced by weathlier Parisians.

@KillerTacos54 2 ай бұрын

Love this series!

@markholland7322 2 ай бұрын

Many today prefer to forget that back then, people hated the modernisation of the city that politics imposed. Many were forced to leave their homes, and th e monotonous modern buildings that replaced the wealth of historical buildings was not appreciated, and indeed there was a certain level of gentrification at work. This example learns us that many with the socio-political background that despise contemporary architecture today, will embrace it as examplary in some hundred years from now.

@markholland7322 2 ай бұрын

Likewise many people prefer to forget that Haussmann had an immigration background- so basically in todays terms thta woukd mesn a son of algerian parents would destroy large parts of Paris to construct contemporary infrastructure to make it easier for troops to move in the city and control the masses, and contemporary buildings forcing the natives to relocate to the suburbs. Because that is what actually happened

@puccaland 2 ай бұрын

Big soulless glass towers? Not a chance. At least not in France.

@puccaland 2 ай бұрын

@@markholland7322 Nobody cares about that just like nobody cares about the fact that the Mayor of Paris and Minister of Public construction which followed and pursued Paris transformation work after Haussmann (voting for the construction of the metro, choosing the Eiffel Tower everybody hated back then), was a Black immigrant.

@guillaumedupont7565 2 ай бұрын

@@markholland7322 And many people are unaware that certain parts of the city before Napoleon III and Hausmann, entire districts of Paris were veritable unlivable and unhealthy cesspools, dangerous cut-throats, leprous and rickety houses without water, gas, amenities or sewers, of unimaginable filth where vermin, diseases and poverty developed...

@connorhadley9028 2 ай бұрын

Hey I love you're city videos, I would love it if you made some about Australian cities maybe Melbourne and/or Sydney!

@oldskoolmusicnostalgia 2 ай бұрын

Been to all of these. Rome is the one that impressed me the most as far as architecture is concerned. Melbourne and Sydney have their own beauty but look too much like North American cities

@henrysmith1464 2 ай бұрын

i like this emperor and the person he selected to rebuild Paris. as it is said by the commentator, it really needs vigor and courage over a 17 years enduring stubborness to make a paris forever briliant.

@bastiennietveld7128 2 ай бұрын

Eeeeh....Big NO ! The emperor was à dumb , megalomanic jerk ! He organized a putsch and destroyed the second République !!! Responsable for the death of hundreds of thousands of people in France and in the colonies ; he was à ruthless dictator and a clown !!! NEVER à Bonaparte will rule France again !!! 😡

@Assassunn 2 ай бұрын

well done Paris!

@Peter_Parker69 2 ай бұрын

Hope they come to their senses again in the future. Beautiful city and people.

@jameslecitron1039 2 ай бұрын

Why would we need to come to our senses ?

@thastayapongsak4422 2 ай бұрын

YOU need to come to your senses

@funkmachine9094 2 ай бұрын

he's just a troll that's never traveled in europe. he sees it from his mc donalds point of view

@Peter_Parker69 2 ай бұрын

@@funkmachine9094 I'm Norwegian with French family, Isaac Newton.. I've never been in America, nor do I plan to. People like you have zero critical thinking skills. Paris used to be a safe city compared to now, it's a simple fact.

@alexedelweiss3267 2 ай бұрын

@@Peter_Parker69 Not even waste your time, dude... When they notice, it will be too late and this time there won't be a Winston Churchill to rescue them.

@Leyfandir 2 ай бұрын

Although I really love Paris, it must be noted that it may have turned out terrible. We are lucky the project was a success but just imagine tge same thing today: destroying a whole medieval city to build state of the art, homogeneous flats, a recipee for disaster. Also, a lot of landmarks were simply erased. So, dont follow hausmann and renovate rather than destroy

@MrBaymeric 2 ай бұрын

Paris should not be a museum, everyone agrees that a medieval city is outdated

@puccaland 2 ай бұрын

And how is it a disaster?

@opm8191 2 ай бұрын

Bruxelles has exactly suffered from what you describe. Many historical buildings (some beautiful Art-Nouveau masterpieces) were destroyed and replaced by "modern' buildings in the 60's and 70s which lead to an architectural disaster... Architects have even a term for that "Brusselization"....

@Leyfandir 2 ай бұрын

@@puccaland I didn't say it was a disaster, I said it could have been

@puccaland 2 ай бұрын

@@Leyfandir It would have been a disaster if Haussmann didnt upgrade the city. Already back then Paris was one of the densest city in the world. It was cramped, dirty, unsanitary, many diseases were rampant, many buildings were derelict and about to collapse and there wasn't enough housing with slums all around the city. Hausmann didn't only build homogeneous buildings but did city planning to make the city livable and sustainable. Carved boulevards, brought modern technology in the heart of the city and houses etc. Luckily he used sustainable materials. Those buildings were better isolated and brought comfort to the population and participated in decreasing the pollution which was very high. To make it short Paris was very insalubrious and was turned into a modern city able to provide good living conditions to its population which was bigger than today on a smaller land.

@tonydeb6793 2 ай бұрын

Napoleon III 👍👍🇫🇷

@DingChavez86 2 ай бұрын

Do you like History? Are you a walker? Then Paris offers endless hours of entertainments 🎉

@nonokbh 2 ай бұрын

Figures for visitors in the Grand Paris are 36.9 milions 2023. Otherwise it is apples and oranges. Nice video though !

@VdWck 2 ай бұрын

It's beautiful, but Paris is also one of the worst heat trap in Europe in the context of global warming...

@garageband_songs9994 2 ай бұрын

Definitely, Paris need way more green spaces

@adeleg4759 2 ай бұрын

In the Haussmann hygienism, parks and trees lining the streets, bringing shadow and cool, are everywhere but the end of last century destroyed all that for cars and parkings... A lot of the new plans is about replanting at the same places😞

@brunol-p_g8800 2 ай бұрын

It’s already one of the greenest capitals in the world. But Europe, especially Switzerland and the countries surrounding it including France are where the temperatures are climbing at the fastest rate in the context of global warming.

@srfin24 2 ай бұрын

pereee

@liudacebanov1327 2 ай бұрын

Perhaps you forget to mention the key motivation for rebuilding Paris in that period: to suppress and control demonstrations easier. Broad boulevards allowed for royal army to be easier deployed and population controlled. Ah - what a service to Parisians at that time. A beautiful result for a high cost.

@adeleg4759 2 ай бұрын

Indeed, Haussmann was préfet (police chief chief ?) not mayor

@micahtshibangu7402 2 ай бұрын

Yes, but also to open up the city for better airflow and improve the sewage system. Haussmann was inspired by the large parks of London and wanted to replicate that in Paris.

@Josian-ps7fb 2 ай бұрын

Indeed! They created an aeration system (hum, not to say vaporization...). The goal was to be able to eliminate the human plugs that accumulate while voscifering "for no reason" (ah, the elites and their great love for crowds, when they can no longer control them...), by using cannon fire (straight lines) and cavalry charges (wide and straight lines). Magnificent, but... well...

@oldskoolmusicnostalgia 2 ай бұрын

@@micahtshibangu7402failed on that count, the Parisian parks are a lot smaller than their London counterparts.

@StarshipCruiser1749 2 ай бұрын

Appreciate your consistent quality!

@TheDailyConversation 2 ай бұрын

I appreciate you!

@JeremyMontejo16 2 күн бұрын

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@darrenlehane92 2 ай бұрын

We can't even imagine this kind of grand ambition today. It seems you don't get great cities without an authoritarian.

@johnniew6688 2 ай бұрын

Too bad La Defense is falling apart.

@Vancouver.Canadian Ай бұрын

Do Paris hotels have air conditioning? Do hotels provide comfortable beds or cardboard boxes to guests to sleep? Do Paris hotels have enough food for guests to eat?

@francoisleyrat8659 Ай бұрын

None of that. France is a third world country, you know.

@Vancouver.Canadian Ай бұрын

@francoisleyrat8659 That is what all my friends and relatives told me after their visits to the Paris Olympics.

@francoisleyrat8659 Ай бұрын

@@Vancouver.Canadian maybe your friends picked a hotel without AC and with cardboard beds ....

@Vancouver.Canadian Ай бұрын

@@francoisleyrat8659 That was my first thought until they told me that they stayed in different hotels in Paris.

@dionysise5008 2 ай бұрын

I wish more French would appreciate their legacy instead of handing it over immigrants with different culture background

@adeleg4759 2 ай бұрын

It was build by those migrants... Garde ton racisme en dehors de ma patrie

@pilema-2006 2 ай бұрын

Paris is so beautiful to your eyes because we kept rancid racist like you from managing our country. Kindly keep looking from as far away as you can while immigrants continue building the cities you admire.

@micheal5491 2 ай бұрын

I live in Ghana Africa and I agree 100% with you, sometimes people think if people say this then it's racism or religion phobia or whatever, No, it's culture. If any immigrant goes to any country they have to speak thier language and learn thier culture. Don't bring your culture to another country and try to impose it there. If you go to Rome do what the Romans do, that's the saying right.

@benkogenko 2 ай бұрын

A city should be built for all, even those with different cultural backgrounds

@yorel7682 2 ай бұрын

Oh ta gueule

@ls42nu 2 ай бұрын

Now Hidalgo is destroying what Haussmann constructed with skyscrapers like Triangle, Duo, TGI & Charenton towers. What a fall down for Paris

@puccaland 2 ай бұрын

Charenton isn't in Paris and the Triangle isn't in an Hausmannian area just like the TGI. Moreover none of this is decided by Hidalgo.

@heliedecastanet1882 2 ай бұрын

@@puccaland Regarding the Triangle, Hidalgo has a major part in the decision. For the rest, I agree with you : she was not the only responsible for the TGI, and has nothing to do with Charenton.

@heliedecastanet1882 2 ай бұрын

Not a word about what Pompidou and Chirac did to Paris ? How odd…

@puccaland 2 ай бұрын

@@heliedecastanet1882 Ah? La Tour Triangle je ne sais pas pourquoi je pensais qu'ils devaient la mettre quelque part dans le 13ème dans un quartier assez dense et donc ça allait faire tache. En fait c'est dans le 15 ème là où il y a déjà plein de tours à l'architecture moche et en plus vers la porte de Versailles qui est plutôt en zone "industrielle" (grands complexes sans âme jusqu'à Issy les Moulineaux) . Pour le coup ça va embellir le coin et peut être booster le quartier, mort.

@sherriziegel 2 ай бұрын

The big wide boulevards of Paris are the worst thing about the city and they were built for one reason - to stop the unruly population from periodically revolting against despots like Napoleon. If the ancient streets had been conserved and renovated they would be some of the most historic and pedestrian friendly in Europe. How can tearing down an ancient city and replacing it with uniform buildings and wide streets good for nothing but vehicular traffic be a good thing? Paris still has neighborhoods and they are the reason people want to go there, not the wide, noisy, dangerous avenues.

@oldskoolmusicnostalgia 2 ай бұрын

The boulevards are exceptionally beautiful, but then you also have areas like the 18th-19th arrondissements which seem to have been entirely spared from the work of Haussmann. Places that look dilapidated and worthy of the third world.

@christianterraes8334 Ай бұрын

Je pense que vous avez mal vu. Par contre la population non européenne y est présente.

@reteipdevries 2 ай бұрын

0:21 Loov??? Really? Quite disrespectful. Try to pronounce the r very shortly.

@joeson7700 2 ай бұрын

With acclaimed SEWAGE Seine river & CHAOTIC Islamic upheavals solution may possibly a DREAM - REVE comes true

@puccaland 2 ай бұрын

Time to start therapy.

@alldebaran 2 ай бұрын

Beautiful people... Awful people

@vincenzo3908 2 ай бұрын

We must be bipolar I guess

@BenGaeda 2 ай бұрын

Paris on the whole is very beautiful, the architecture, the parks,the restaurants and the museums, BUT when you start looking at the details it's very badly maintained, get in one of these haussmanian buildings and you will be struck by a very nasty odor, they should think about a ventilation systems to make it better and liveable, at the same time the HOA rates are exorbitant, you pay on average $10k for a smelly consierge who basically doesn't do anything except being dressed up in underwears and cooking pastas .😅!!!

@cedricglorieux6096 2 ай бұрын

U préfer when unqualified people like in the US have 2 or 3 jobs working +10 hours with no social insurance, no vacation, no healtcare & no chance to their children to go to university ? In France, WE think that somebody who works, have thé right to bé paid 10$ hours 7 hours a day 5 days per week, have social insurance, healthcare, 5 weeks of paid vacation/year & free university. That's called humanity & civilisation.

@BenGaeda 2 ай бұрын

@cedricglorieux6096 humanity and civility are for those who deserve it. People have to work for that kind of dignity. You can't push people forward, it's not the natural thing to do ,it's unproductive and inefficient. The reason is that people are not equal. They don't deserve the same rewards.

@puccaland 2 ай бұрын

Or perhaps your nose is too close from your mouth?

@BenGaeda 2 ай бұрын

@puccaland suppose it's so,,,that's not gonna make it smell better, it's nasty and smelly even in the best of the districts, at the corner of Marbeuf and George 5,which suppose to be the high end of the district of couture, and at the corner of rue du cirque and saint honore,near the elysees palace ,you can see mouses 🐁 and rats 🐀 anytime of the day,🤣😂🤣😂.

@puccaland 2 ай бұрын

@@BenGaeda Especially if you dream them.

@90taetaeya 2 ай бұрын

police state now

@jf2187 2 ай бұрын

Va en Russie ou en Chine tu verras la différence La France est une grande démocratie

@ErickHumboldt 2 ай бұрын

Woke 100%

@IRACEMABABU 2 ай бұрын

Il fait bon à Bamako ?

@ENGBriseB 2 ай бұрын

The world's greatest city is London. For the last 10 years.

@DavidWatson-g1c 2 ай бұрын

Dream on

@guillaume5156 2 ай бұрын

Yes, but he didn't say the "greatest", he said the "most beautiful" 😉

@loremasteringwion9930 2 ай бұрын

As Chinese I think it is a third world compared to China, not even comparable to 4th tier cities in China. Chinese cities are much more beautiful and modern

@lva1595 2 ай бұрын

China's modern cities are soulless.

@renzohorner2542 2 ай бұрын

Sure…

@Leopold_van_Aubel 2 ай бұрын

Nice troll

@XDF745 2 ай бұрын

They might be modern but they're definitely not beautiful.

@joarembstaples4837 2 ай бұрын

Talking about most beautiful, most preserved, most geo perfect planned old city, not about modernized.