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Chaptal replied immediately, "Give it water". Napoleon seemed surprised, but the same evening ordered the first studies of a possible aqueduct from the Ourcq River to the basin of La Valette in Paris. The canal was begun in 1802, and completed in 1808. Beginning in 1812, the water was distributed free to Parisians from the city fountains.
When Napoleon proposed the army march on Paris, his Marshals decided to unanimously overrule Napoleon in order to save the city from further destruction. As a result, the victorious Coalition negotiated the Treaty of Paris, under which Napoleon was exiled to the island of Elba and the borders of France were returned to where they had been in 1792.
Napoleon had begun the construction of a new sewer system for Paris in 1805, under the direction of Emmanuel Bruneseau, named Inspector of Sewers. He built a network of 26 kilometers of tunnels, with eighty-six separate lines under the streets.
Paris under Napoleon; 0–9. 13 Vendémiaire; B. Battle of Paris (1814) C. Coup of 18 Brumaire; Coup of 30 Prairial VII; I. Insurrection of 10 August 1792; W.
Napoleon, on 20 March 1815, returned to Paris from Elba to find the city indifferent or even against his return. On his route , most troops sent to stop his march, including some that were nominally royalist, felt more inclined to join the former Emperor than to stop him. [ 22 ]
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The new boulevards and parks built by Haussmann during the Second Empire. In 1853, Napoleon III assigned his new prefect of the Seine department, Georges-Eugène Haussmann, the task of bringing more water, air, and light into the city center, widening the streets to make traffic circulation easier, and making it the most beautiful city in Europe.
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