Claude-Philibert Barthelot de Rambuteau
Count of France (1781-1869)
Claude-Philibert Barthelot, comte de Rambuteau (French pronunciation: [klod filibɛːʁ baʁtəlo kɔ̃t də ʁɑ̃byto]) (Mâcon, 9 November 1781 – Château de Rambuteau, 11 April 1869) was a French senior official of the first half of the 19th century. He was préfet of the former Department of the Seine, which included Paris, from 1833 to 1848. He established the groundwork for the fundamental transformation of Paris that Haussmann carried out under the Second Empire.
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His administration was marked by the implementation of hygienists’ theories. One year before his nomination, a cholera epidemic devastated Paris. Rambuteau thought that the narrow, tortuous streets and small disease-prone districts in the centre of Paris encouraged the development of the disease. He commenced the cutting of 13-metre-wide roads through Paris with the widening of the Rue Rambuteau in 1839, which was later named after him. This was the first time wide roads had been built in central Paris.
Under his administration, the Arc de Triomphe in the Place de l'Étoile was finished, and the building of the great avenue of the Champs-Élysées commenced.
Rambuteau’s motto was "Water, air, shade".
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