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you have the kiosks selling newspapers,
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you have trees, you have these boulevards that had
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been created by Haussmann.
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Now, to be sure now there were boulevards in European cities
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before Haussmann.
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They tended to be on the outskirts of cities, and they were built where
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there had been walls, military fortifications,
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in a way replaced ramparts that had been torn down.
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The best example, and many of you may know this,
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is Vienna with the Ringstrasse, which was really a creation of the
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liberal period in Viennese history, in the 1850s,
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and '60s, and '70s,