In many ways he's not an interesting man, Haussmann.

在很多方面奥斯曼不是个有趣的人
I was asked to write a biography of him once and I didn't do it,

我被邀请为他写一本传记但是我拒绝了
I gave it to someone else.

我把这个任务给了其他人
And of course Paris is the big story.

当然巴黎是主要的故事
He was a fonctionnaire, he was a technocrat, but he was very

他是个技术专家他很擅长自己的领域
good at what he did, from repress people to building

从镇压人民到建造
boulevards.

大道
And, so, this is a success there, it frees up the flow of circulation,

这是成功的它解放了资本流通
but it chases people like this

但它把人们逼到此等境地
-this is a pawn shop that still exists,

这是现在仍然有的一个当铺
it's a municipal pawnshop, it's exactly the same space where it

这是一个市立当铺
was at this time.

地址和当时一样