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an old black and white photo of a lamp post in the middle of a street

In the early 1860s, Napoleon III commissioned photographer Charles Marville to document the city's transformation from medieval architectural hodgepodge to modern metropolis. The results of that project, known as the Old Paris album, are now on display at the National Gallery of Art.

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the eiffel tower towering over the city of paris, france in black and white

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an old photo of people standing on the side of a bridge looking at the eiffel tower
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an old black and white photo of people walking in the rain on a city street

The life of French photographer Charles Marville, the subject of a retrospective currently at the Metropolitan Museum, comes down to us hazy in its contours. Born Charles-François Bossu in 1813 to a family of artisans and tradesmen, Marville rid himself of “Bossu” (hunchback) after being teased about it at school, but the import of his chosen pseudonym is unknown.

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