The Haussmann District

Crucial figures of Parisian life, newspaper kiosks wave seen the city change a lot since their creation more than 160 years ago. When asked, every vendor really tells the story of his neighborhood, on the scale of a lifetime.

If the Haussmann district only needed a few years to become a focal point of fashion in Paris, it had nothing to do with chance or coincidence.

Still relatively rural in the first half of the XIXth century, the Haussmann district was born at the instigation of the man who would give it his name.