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law student in Paris, and he was born in the more
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prosperous western part of Paris.
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Again, that dichotomy between prosperous west and more
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impoverished east is as
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important as increasingly prosperous center,
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over the long run of time, and the impoverished periphery,
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more about that in a minute.
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So, in 1852 Napoleon spreads out a map of a city he really
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didn't know very well, Napoleon III does,
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and says, "I want you to build me great boulevards."
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And, so, Haussmann, who's prefect of the Seine,
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does that.