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Place Saint-André-des-Arts (sixth arrondissement)
Charles Marville French
Marville’s photograph reveals the centuries-old square of Saint-André-des-Arts as a disparate clump of buildings plastered with sundry advertisements for baths, mechanical beds, sign and letter painting, and a moving company—the last surely a common sight
in the restless quarters of Second Empire Paris. In his desire for homogeneity, Haussmann targeted such idiosyncratic topography and mandated that buildings on new avenues have restrained façades and uniform heights.
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