Haussmann's renovation of Paris changed its housing,
street layouts, and green spaces.
Haussmann's work was met with fierce opposition,
and he was finally dismissed by Napoleon III in 1870;
The underground labyrinth built by Haussmann also provided gas for heat and for lights to illuminate Paris.
The street plan and distinctive appearance of the center of Paris today is largely the result of Haussmann's renovation.
The most famous and
recognizable feature of Haussmann's renovation of Paris are the Haussmann apartment buildings which line the boulevards of Paris.
By March, Haussmann settled on Rohault de Fleury's proposed
site off the Boulevard des Capucines, although this decision was not announced publicly until 1860.
In the early 19th century, before Haussmann, the height of buildings was strictly limited to 22.41 meters,
or four floors above the ground floor.
With the establishment of the Second Empire in 1852 and Georges-Eugène Haussmann's appointment as Prefect of the Seine in June 1853,
interest in a new opera house revived.
Haussmann's renovation of Paris was a vast public
works program commissioned by Emperor Napoléon III and directed by his prefect of the Seine, Georges-Eugène Haussmann, between 1853 and 1870.
Haussmann forced them to consolidate into a single company,
the Compagnie parisienne d'éclairage et de chauffage par le gaz, with rights to provide gas to Parisians for fifty years.
Paris has launched the most ambitious project of modernization of the
developed 150 years ago by Georges-Eugène Haussmann, which replaced the medieval buildings in the center of the French
capital with the grand boulevards bordering currently high,