Brewer's: Haussmannization

The pulling down and building up anew of streets and cities, as Baron Haussmann remodelled Paris. In 1868 he had saddled Paris with a debt of about twenty-eight millions.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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