A Vision of Paris: The Roxane Debuisson Collection at Stanford
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Stanford University Libraries presents A Vision of Paris: the Roxane Debuisson Collection at Stanford, on view in the Peterson Gallery and Munger Rotunda of the Cecil H. Green Library from September 22, 2026 to January 24, 2027. Roxane Debuisson (1927–2018) dedicated sixty years to documenting the transformation of the city of Paris during the nineteenth century. If Roxane Debuisson could not stop the changes she saw underway in the late 20th century, she could at least preserve the city’s earlier history through images, literature, guidebooks, and other documents. Her lifelong project helped to document Paris during the nineteenth century, especially the city’s rapid changes from the 1850s to the 1870s, when Emperor Napoleon III and his prefect of the Seine, Baron Eugène Haussmann, transformed the city with new boulevards, green spaces, and public utilities, and fostered innovations in commercial and cultural practices. A Vision of Paris: the Roxane Debuisson Collection at Stan
