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Re:Paris Will Create the City's Largest Gardens Around the E... by carlob on Thursday May 23, 2019 @03:14AM (#19989304)
> For a city that’s almost 2 thousand years old

There is really not much of the city that wasn't redone by Haussmann at the end of the 19th century. Even remnants of medieval Paris are few outside of the Marais.

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Re:Paris Will Create the City's Largest Gardens Around the E... by baud147258 on Thursday May 23, 2019 @05:46AM (#19990114)
In addition to Haussmann's works, there's also all the reconstruction that had to took place after the Franco-Prussian war and its aftermath.
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