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The Second Empire was also a moment of great building fever, but this time London became the example to follow under the influence of Napoléon III, a keen anglophile and Queen Victoria’s friend. So Baron Haussmann got inspiration from the sanitisation works in the British capital and creation of parks and gardens enclosed in the urban fabric, undertaken by my husband’s ancestor, Thomas Cubitt, master builder, as he called himself, close friend of Queen Victoria and Prince...