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Article: Paris: Capitale religieuse sous le Second Empire
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- The Catholic Historical Review
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- July 1, 2003
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Late Modern European Paris: Capitale religieuse sous le Second Empire. By Jacques-Olivier Boudon. [Histoire religieuse de la France, Vol. 18] (Paris: Les Editions du Cerf. 2001. Pp. 560. euro30.)
In the famous phrase of Walter Benjamin, Paris was "the capital of the nineteenth century." For Benjamin, and for countless other historians, Paris took on this role because more than any other city it was the representative site for the triumphant bourgeoisie, who celebrated there a secular culture of consumption in a framework of grand boulevards and civic monuments. The central figure in the history of Paris was Baron Haussmann, the prefect of Paris for most of the Second Empire, whose ...