rebuilding instigated by Napoleon III, they were the first to record the broad, tree-lined boulevards and fashionable cafes that are so familiar today. The second section begins in 1889 when, with the advent of the hand-held Kodak camera, photography became the province of the amateur as well as the professional. Over the next thirty years, snapshots of an ever more elegant Paris were placed in the family album alongside pictures of the latest wedding or christening.
