My Google-fu has failed me.

[fabrisse]

I've tried rewording the query, but I can't come up with an answer. I need to the know the height of a standard Haussmann building in Paris. It can be on the Champs Elysees or the Boulevard de la Madeleine. I know the heights were standardized, but all of the references I get are tourist ones telling me that the height was standardized -- not what the standard is. I'll take meters and would prefer feet. (I can tell they're about seven stories, but the stories are irregular. Also, as I know from my own time in a 19th century apartment, a story is closer to 18' than the more modern 12' for residential.)

Surprisingly, the other question I needed to know the answer to was much easier to find. The Champs Elysees is 229 feet wide; the Grands Boulevards are 45 feet wide.

Comments

[kuriadalmatia.livejournal.com]

Have you tried little_details? I've found them incredibly helpful for the smallest of, er, details. Cheers!

[fabrisse.livejournal.com]

I didn't know about them. I will try immediately. *G*

[stlscape.livejournal.com]

Wiki, for what it's worth, under "Haussmann's Renovation of Paris", talks about buildings on streets wider than 20 meters being increased from 57.5 feet high to 65.6 feet high. (Scroll down to "Public Regulations".)

[fabrisse.livejournal.com]

Thank you. I don't know how I missed that.