Baron Hausmann
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Baron Georges-Eugène Haussmann LH |
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| Member of the French Chamber of Deputies | |
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In office 14 October 1877 – 27 October 1881 |
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| Constituency | Haute-Corse |
| Member of the French Senate | |
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In office 9 June 1857 – 4 September 1870 |
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| Monarch | Napoleon III |
| Prefect of Seine | |
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In office 23 June 1853 – 5 January 1870 |
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| Monarch | Napoleon III |
| Preceded by | Jean-Jacques Berger |
| Succeeded by | Henri Chevreau |
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27 March 1809 Paris, French Empire |
| Died | 11 January 1891 (aged 81) Paris, France |
| Resting place | Père Lachaise Cemetery, Paris |
| Nationality | French |
| Political party | Bonapartist |
| Spouse(s) | Octavie de Laharpe (m. 1838–1890); her death |
| Children | Marie-Henriette Valentine Eugénie (illegitimate) |
| Education | Lycée Condorcet |
| Alma mater | Paris Conservatory |
| Profession | Official, prefect |
Georges-Eugène Haussmann, commonly known as Baron Haussmann (French pronunciation: [ʒɔʁʒ øʒɛn (ba.ʁɔ̃) os.man], 27 March 1809 – 11 January 1891), was a prefect of the Seine Department of France chosen by Emperor Napoleon III to carry out a massive urban renewal program of new boulevards, parks and public works in Paris that is 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.
Haussmann was born in Paris on 27 March 1809, at 53 rue du Faubourg-du-Roule, in Beaujon, the son of Nicolas-Valentin Haussmann and of Ève-Marie-Henriette-Caroline Dentzel, the daughter of a general and a deputy of the French National Convention: Georges Frédéric Dentzel, a baron of Napoleon's First Empire. He was the grandson of Nicolas Haussmann (1759–1847), a deputy of the Legislative Assembly and National Convention, an administrator of the Department of Seine-et-Oise and a commissioner to the army.
He began his schooling at the Collège Henri-IV and at the Lycée Condorcet in Paris, and then began to study law. At the same time, he studied music as a student at the Paris Conservatory, as he was a talented musician.
He was married on 17 October 1838 in Bordeaux to Octavie de Laharpe. They had two daughters: Henriette, who married the banker Camille Dollfus in 1860, and Valentine, who married Vicomte Maurice Pernéty, the chief of staff of his department, in 1865. Valentine divorced Pernéty in 1891. She then married Georges Renouard (1843–1897).
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