El París de Haussmann como territorio de la utopía: Victor Fournel (1865) y Victor Hugo (1867)

Abstract

A phenomenon linked to the new conditions of the industrial metropolis, the resurgence of political and literary utopias in the middle decades of the 19th century found fertile ground in Paris, particularly at the time of Baron Haussmann’s grands travaux. This article focuses on two texts that are especially meaningful in this respect: Victor Fournel’s Paris nouveau et Paris futur (1865) and Victor Hugo’s introduction to the Paris Guide, published for the 1867 Universal Exhibition.