History
The Transformative Forces of Paris
Test your knowledge of Paris's history and the influential figures who shaped its urban landscape. This quiz explores profound quotes and thoughts about the city, intriguing insights from notable authors, and revolutionary developments that defined Paris's evolution.
- 53 thought-provoking questions
- Explore insights from key historical figures
- Learn about the transformation of Paris
”… uninterrupted disturbance of all social conditions, everlasting uncertainty and agitation… all fixed, fast frozen relations… are swept away, all new-formed ones become antiquated before they can ossify. All that is solid melts in air
Karl Marx
Alexis de toqueville
Jonathan Raban
Haussmann
Woolf
Considerant
The workers districts in paris
Napoleon III
Maxime de campe
Corbusier
Paris was on the point of becoming uninhabitable. Its population was suffocating in the tiny, narrow, putrid and tangled streets in which it had been diumped. AS a result of this state of affirs, everything suffered: hygiene, security, speed of communication and public morality”
Maxime de campe
Karl Marx
Alexis de toqueville
Jonathan Raban
Haussmann
Woolf
Considerant
The workers districts in paris
Napoleon III
Corbusier
we are sleeping on a volcano”
Maxime de campe
Karl Marx
Jonathan Raban
Haussmann
Woolf
Considerant
The workers districts in paris
Napoleon III
Alexis de toqueville
Corbusier
Worked simultaneously against plague and revolutions”
Alexis de toqueville
Maxime de campe
Karl Marx
Haussmann
Jonathan Raban
Woolf
Considerant
The workers districts in paris
Napoleon III
Corbusier
Soft City” “The city as melodrama”
Haussmann
Alexis de toqueville
Maxime de campe
Karl Marx
Woolf
Jonathan Raban
Considerant
The workers districts in paris
Napoleon III
Corbusier
Society might be arranged for man’s greatest good; here, all too often, it has seemed a sink of vice and failure”
Jonathan Raban
Haussmann
Alexis de toqueville
Maxime de campe
Karl Marx
Woolf
Considerant
The workers districts in paris
Napoleon III
Corbusier
We have grown used to looking for Utopia only to discover that we have created hell”
Haussmann
Alexis de toqueville
Maxime de campe
Jonathan Raban
Karl Marx
Woolf
Considerant
The workers districts in paris
Napoleon III
Corbusier
The city is the province of rogues and angels”
Haussmann
Alexis de toqueville
Maxime de campe
Jonathan Raban
Karl Marx
Woolf
Considerant
The workers districts in paris
Napoleon III
Corbusier
The essential joys, satisfaction of psycho-physiological needs, collective participation, and individual liberty”
Jonathan Raban
Haussmann
Alexis de toqueville
Maxime de campe
Corbusier
Karl Marx
Woolf
Considerant
The workers districts in paris
Napoleon III
A city, judged in terms of our social behavior inside it, is not a normal circumstance; and its public arenas – restaurants, late-night tube trains, certain streets and squares, like Piccadilly circus in London – are licensed for a degree of theatrical abnormality. In cities, people are given to acting, putting on a show of themselves.”
Haussmann
Jonathan Raban
Alexis de toqueville
Maxime de campe
Karl Marx
Woolf
Considerant
The workers districts in paris
Napoleon III
Corbusier
enormous eye”
Jonathan Raban
Haussmann
Alexis de toqueville
Woolf
Maxime de campe
Karl Marx
Considerant
The workers districts in paris
Napoleon III
Corbusier
Let us choose those pearls, for example, and then imagine how, if we put them on, life would be changed.”
Woolf
Jonathan Raban
Haussmann
Alexis de toqueville
Maxime de campe
Karl Marx
Considerant
The workers districts in paris
Napoleon III
Corbusier
Let us be content still with surfaces only – the glossy brilliance of the motor omnibuses; the carnal splendor of the butchers shops… the blue and red bunches of flowers burning so bravely through the plate glass of the florist’ windows”
Jonathan Raban
Haussmann
Alexis de toqueville
Maxime de campe
Karl Marx
Woolf
Considerant
The workers districts in paris
Napoleon III
Corbusier
In the street outside, one catches a word in passing and from a chance of phrase fabricates a lifetime”
Woolf
Jonathan Raban
Haussmann
Alexis de toqueville
Maxime de campe
Karl Marx
Considerant
The workers districts in paris
Napoleon III
Corbusier
We know that nothing of this sort matters”
Jonathan Raban
Haussmann
Alexis de toqueville
Woolf
Maxime de campe
Karl Marx
Considerant
The workers districts in paris
Napoleon III
Corbusier
The illusion that one is not tethered to a single mind, but can briefly for a few minutes the bodies and minds of others”
Jonathan Raban
Haussmann
Alexis de toqueville
Maxime de campe
Karl Marx
Woolf
Considerant
The workers districts in paris
Napoleon III
Corbusier
We are no longer quite ourselves. AS we step out of the house…we shed the self our friends know us by”
Jonathan Raban
Haussmann
Alexis de toqueville
Maxime de campe
Karl Marx
Considerant
The workers districts in paris
Napoleon III
Corbusier
Woolf
We ripped open the belly of old Paris, the neighbourhood of revolt and barricades, and cut a large opening through the almost impenetrable maze of alleys, piece by piece, and put I in cross-streets whose continuation terminated the work”
Woolf
Jonathan Raban
Alexis de toqueville
Haussmann
Maxime de campe
Karl Marx
Considerant
The workers districts in paris
Napoleon III
Corbusier
It’s the evisceration of old Paris… of a neighbourhood of riots and barricades”
Haussmann
Woolf
Jonathan Raban
Alexis de toqueville
Maxime de campe
Karl Marx
Considerant
The workers districts in paris
Napoleon III
Corbusier
combination of urban improvement and community mutilation”
Woolf
Jonathan Raban
Alexis de toqueville
Maxime de campe
Karl Marx
Considerant
Haussmann
The workers districts in paris
Napoleon III
Corbusier
A greate manufactory of putrefaction in which poverty, plague…and disease labour in concert and where sunlight barely ever enters. It is a foul hole where plants wilt and perish and four out of seven children die within their first year”
Haussmann
Considerant
Woolf
Jonathan Raban
Alexis de toqueville
Maxime de campe
Karl Marx
The workers districts in paris
Napoleon III
Corbusier
Seminaries of revolution which contains heroes, inventors, practical savants, rascals, rogues, virtues and vices, all compressed together by poverty, stifled by necessity, worn out by strong liquor”
Considerant
Haussmann
Woolf
Jonathan Raban
Alexis de toqueville
The workers districts in paris
Maxime de campe
Karl Marx
Napoleon III
Corbusier
We are sleeping on a volcano…do you not see that the earth trembles anew? A wind of revolution blows, the storm is on the horizon”
The workers districts in paris
Considerant
Haussmann
Woolf
Jonathan Raban
Maxime de campe
Karl Marx
Alexis de toqueville
Napoleon III
Corbusier
Major arteries opening, populous areas becoming healthier, rents tending to get lower as a result of more and more building, the working class getting richer through work, poverty diminishing through better organization of relief and Paris responding to its highest calling”
Alexis de toqueville
The workers districts in paris
Considerant
Haussmann
Woolf
Jonathan Raban
Napoleon III
Maxime de campe
Karl Marx
Corbusier
It’s the evisceration of old paris of a neighbourhood of riots and barricades”
Napoleon III
Alexis de toqueville
The workers districts in paris
Considerant
Haussmann
Woolf
Jonathan Raban
Maxime de campe
Karl Marx
Corbusier
In the past we mastered riots by rifle and cannon. Today we use pick and trowel”
Napoleon III
Alexis de toqueville
The workers districts in paris
Considerant
Haussmann
Woolf
Jonathan Raban
Maxime de campe
Karl Marx
Corbusier
Rue de Rivoli, post 1850s
The boulevards of Paris
Brompton Road, London
Crystal Palace, 1851
Paris Exhibition, 1867
East End London
Paris, 1848 Revolution
The city as Nightmare
Building London Sewers
A tour of the Paris Sewers
Building the London Tube
The Tube in London, 1911
Building the Paris Metro
The Paris Metro 1939
Britain, First World War, recruiting poster
Mobile, Alabama, 1950s
The city of God
The city as Hell
The Garden City
The Garden City
Gustave Courbusier, La Ville Radieuse
Soviet urban Planning
Magnitogorsk
Hevgate Estate, London
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