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Georges-Eugène Haussmann

Baron
Georges-Eugène Haussmann
Georges-Eugène Haussmann - BNF Gallica.jpg
Member of the French Chamber of Deputies
In office
14 October 1877 – 27 October 1881
Constituency Haute-Corse
Member of the French Senate
In office
9 June 1857 – 4 September 1870
Monarch Napoleon III
Prefect of Seine
In office
23 June 1853 – 5 January 1870
Monarch Napoleon III
Preceded by Jean-Jacques Berger
Succeeded by Henri Chevreau
Personal details
Born (1809-03-27)27 March 1809
Paris, French Empire
Died 11 January 1891(1891-01-11) (aged 81)
Paris, France
Resting place Père Lachaise Cemetery, Paris
Nationality French
Political party Bonapartist
Spouse(s) Octavie de Laharpe (m. 1838–90); her death
Children Marie-Henriette
Valentine
Eugénie (illegitimate)
Education Lycée Condorcet
Alma mater Paris Conservatory
Profession Official, prefect
Religion Calvinism

Georges-Eugène Haussmann, commonly known as Baron Haussmann (French pronunciation: ​[ʒɔʁʒ øʒɛn (ba.ʁɔ̃) os.man], 27 March 1809 – 11 January 1891), was the prefect of the Seine Department in France, who was chosen by the Emperor Napoleon III to carry out a massive program of new boulevards, parks and public works in Paris, commonly called Haussmann's renovation of Paris. Critics forced his resignation for extravagance, but his vision of the city still dominates Central Paris.

Haussmann was born in Paris on 27 March 1809, at 55 rue du Faubourg-du-Roule, in the neighbourhood called Beaujon, in a house which he later demolished during his renovation of the city. Haussmann's family originated from Alsace. He was the son of Nicolas-Valentin Haussmann (1787–1876), a senior official in the military establishment of Napoleon Bonaparte, and of Ève-Marie-Henriette-Caroline Dentzel, the daughter of a general and a deputy of the French National Convention, Georges Frédéric Dentzel (), a baron of Napoleon's First Empire. He was the grandson of Nicolas Haussmann () (1759–1847), a deputy of the Legislative Assembly and of the National Convention, an administrator of the Department of Seine-et-Oise, and a commissioner to the army.

He began his schooling at the collège Henri-IV and at the lycée Condorcet in Paris, and then began to study law. At the same time he studied music as a student at the Paris conservatory of music, as he was a good musician.


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