A Paris schoolmaster, tells the story of the famed Paris boulevard, the Champs-Elysées, from its beginnings in 1617, as a road cut by Marie de Médicis through marshes and woods, through its garish bourgeois splendor under Napoleon III, to the present.
A Paris schoolmaster, tells the story of the famed Paris boulevard, the Champs-Elysées, from its beginnings in 1617, as a road cut by Marie de Médicis through marshes and woods, through its garish bourgeois splendor under Napoleon III, to the present.