For that matter, Haussmann's boulevards

因此豪斯曼规划的街道
were too wide for barricades.

宽到不适合任何路障
To Auguste Renoir, the Impressionist painting,

对于一个印象派画家奥古斯特·雷诺阿来说
the buildings that lined the boulevards were,

街道两旁的建筑
"Cold and lined up like soldiers at review,"

冷冰冰的好像等待检阅的成排的士兵
a nice description of the consolidation of State power

对于政权巩固的不错的描述
in nineteenth-century France.

十九世纪法国
On May Day 1891,

一八九一年劳动节那天
troops fired on demonstrators, killing women and children

军队枪杀了示威者包括很多女人和孩童
in the small industrial town in the north of Fourmies, a woolens town.

在北富尔米一个工业小镇毛纺小镇
France may not then have had strong executive authority

法国当时或许没有强硬的执行政权
because of the fear of Caesarism, after two Napoleons,

出于在两代拿破仑以后对军国主义的惧怕