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A collection of historical black and white photographs of areas around Paris that no longer exist today. The tenth arrondissement is featured first the, this second part concerns especially the villages and suburbs annexed to Paris in 1860 by Napoleon III. Through these new territories, Paris, which now extends to the walled enclosure of Thiers (the fortifications), built from 1841 to 1844 to protect it from invasion, will take on a new face at once bucolic and provincial. With this annexation, Paris was enriched with new neighborhoods to the powerful charm that town planning of the 60s and 70s will largely disappear after only one century of bartering his seething streets of life and human scale against d 'agonizing cities without souls. More than 300 formerly unpublished photographs provide a unique view of lost Parisian architecture that was not considered important enough to escape overzealous real estate developers.