# Construction of the Avenue de l‘Opéra in Paris

- By: Charles Marville (Paris, 1816–ca.)
- Date: 1876 - 1877-02-24
- Medium: cardboard, photographic support
- Classification: photograph
- Dimensions: height 258 mm x width 359 mm
- Museum: [Rijksmuseum](https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/collection/object/RP-F-1996-257--f84bab581da238a2f61494295a0104df)
- Rights: [Public Domain Mark](http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/)
- Picture: https://iiif.micr.io/JiEOq/full/!1920,1080/0/default.jpg
- Who can see it: Tweens profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

Between 1853 and 1870 the incessant din of buildings being knocked down resounded throughout Paris. Emperor Napoléon III engaged Georges-Eugène Haussmann to mastermind the city’s rigorous urban renewal, whereby a significant portion of the old medieval Paris vanished to make way for boulevards and newly built houses. Charles Marville recorded much of this demolition and construction.