for once not at the opera trying to hit on the young ballerinas,

不止一次地在剧院设法碰到年轻的芭蕾舞女
and the man in the middle is Haussmann, who was not born in

那个在中间的人是奥斯曼他不是出生在
Alsace, but his family came from Alsace and he'd been a

阿尔萨斯但他的家庭来自那
law student in Paris, and he was born in the more

他曾经是巴黎的一名法律学生出生在
prosperous western part of Paris.

更加繁荣的巴黎西部
Again, that dichotomy between prosperous west and more

繁荣的西部和更加贫穷的东部的二分
impoverished east is as

是像繁荣增长的中部
important as increasingly prosperous center,

一样重要的
over the long run of time, and the impoverished periphery,

在时间的长河里贫穷的外围
more about that in a minute.

更多的难以实现富裕
So, in 1852 Napoleon spreads out a map of a city he really

在1852年拿破仑展开城市的地图
didn't know very well, Napoleon III does,

他其实知道的不多但拿破仑三世知道