1. See Roger Magraw, France 1815–1914: The Bourgeois Century (London: Fontana, 1983), pp. 89–155;
2. Theodor Zeldin, France 1848–1945, 5 vols (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1979–81);
3. Jean Tulard (ed.), Dictionnaire du Second Empire (Paris: Fayard, 1995).
4. See David H. Pinkney, Napoleon III and the Re-Building of Paris (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1958);
5. Anthony Sutcliffe, The Autumn of Central Paris: The Defeat of Town Planning (London: Edward Arnold, 1970) and Paris: An Architectural History (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1993);