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terrible zoning; and then here,
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what became the Boulevard Sebastopol, the Boulevard Saint-Denis that goes
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out to the railroad stations.
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And, of course, Haussmann is often castigated for
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having built the railroad stations next to each other,
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without having anticipated the automobile, but how could he have
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known about the automobile
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in the 1850s and '60s?
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So, they complete the sort of star, the toile here, which is the
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place, place of the Arc de Triomphe,
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and creates--he finishes the Rue de Rivoli here,
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and of course it's along that axis, as you saw, that the troops come in