Views of Paris Cocktail Napkins 20% OFF!

The five views of Paris on these 2-ply paper cocktail napkins are based on a map of 1867 that portrays the Paris created by Napoleon III and Baron Haussmann. They include: the Arc de Triomphe de l'Étoile and environs; the Luxembourg Gardens, Hôtel des Invalides, École Militaire, and environs; the Place de la Concorde, Tuileries Palace, Louvre, and environs; the Madeleine, Opéra, and environs; the Île de la Cité, Notre-Dame, and environs.    When Louis-Napoleon (soon to become Napoleon III) returned to France from exile in 1848, he brought with him a map of Paris painstakingly marked in red, blue, green, and yellow inks. This document, now lost, was the plan for no less than the full-scale modernization of Paris. At that time, Paris was a fetid medieval city of dark, winding streets. Courtyards of buildings were used as garbage dumps, chamber pots were emptied from windows, and two-thirds of the streets contained open sewers. In 1853, Napoleon III appointed an unknown provincial