Charles #Marville (1813–79) was commissioned by Napoleon III to document districts doomed by crews under Georges-Eugène #Haussmann, in the name of urban renewal. Countless mysteries of #MedievalParis, lost forever, were imaged by his lens—they're world treasures; a legacy of uninhabited memory. Haunted.

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