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Urban Government and the Rise of the French City: Five Municipalities in the Nineteenth Century (Hardcover)

by William B. Cohen (Author) "The Revolution created uniform municipal institutions, charged with governing their communes..." (more)
Key Phrases: octroi employees, octroi service, des octrois, Third Republic, World War, Louis Napoleon (more...)
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By comparing the response of five major French provincial municipalities - Lyon, Marseilles, Bordeaux, Toulouse and St. Etienne - to the challenges of urbanization, the study is able to elucidate the extent to which city governments were at the forefront in the modernization of urban France.


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By comparing the response of five major French provincial municipalities - Lyon, Marseilles, Bordeaux, Toulouse and St. Etienne - to the challenges of urbanization, the study is able to elucidate the extent to which city governments were at the forefront in the modernization of urban France.

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octroi employees, octroi service, des octrois, des logements insalubres, theater subsidies, politique scolaire, municipal pawnshop, civil service statute, replacement taxes, one councilor, communal schools, municipal councilors, urbaine dans, assistant mayor, municipal commission, large avenues
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Third Republic, World War, Louis Napoleon, Saint Etienne, National Assembly, Second Republic, Furan River, Adolphe Thiers, French Parliament, July Revolution, Georges Clemenceau, Mayor Gautier
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