Georges-Eugène Haussmann
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Baron Georges-Eugène Haussmann |
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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. 1838–90); her death |
| Children | Marie-Henriette Valentine Eugénie (illegitimate) |
| Education | Lycée Condorcet |
| Alma mater | Paris Conservatory |
| Profession | Official, prefect |
| Religion | Calvinism |
Georges-Eugène Haussmann, commonly known as Baron Haussmann (French pronunciation: [ʒɔʁʒ øʒɛn (ba.ʁɔ̃) os.man], 27 March 1809 – 11 January 1891), was the prefect of the Seine Department in France, who was chosen by the Emperor Napoleon III to carry out a massive program of new boulevards, parks and public works in Paris, commonly called 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 55 rue du Faubourg-du-Roule, in the neighbourhood called Beaujon, in a house which he later demolished during his renovation of the city. Haussmann's family originated from Alsace. He was the son of Nicolas-Valentin Haussmann (1787–1876), a senior official in the military establishment of Napoleon Bonaparte, 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 of the 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 of music, as he was a good musician.
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