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Charles Marville
Passage Saint-Guillaume vers la rue Richelieu, 1863

"Passage Saint-Guillaume vers la rue Richelieu", 1863. © Charles Marville.
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Introduction
Appointed as the official photographer of the city of Paris, Charles Marville was tasked with immortalizing the historic streets, narrow alleys, and picturesque neighborhoods before they were inexorably swept away by the radical urban renewal plan orchestrated by Baron Georges-Eugène Haussmann under Napoleon III.
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