Editing Bordeaux (section)

=== 19th century, rebirth of the economy ===
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[[File:Hugo d'Alesi, vue cavalière de Bordeaux, 1899, Archives de Bordeaux métropole.jpg|thumb|upright=1.2|Aerial view of the [[Port of the Moon]] in 1899]]

From the [[Bourbon Restoration in France|Bourbon Restoration]], the economy of Bordeaux was rebuilt by traders and shipowners. They engaged to construct the first bridge of Bordeaux, and customs warehouses. The shipping traffic grew through the new [[French colonial empire|African colonies]].

[[Georges-Eugène Haussmann]], a longtime prefect of Bordeaux, used Bordeaux's 18th-century large-scale rebuilding as a model when he was asked by Emperor [[Napoleon III of France|Napoleon III]] to transform the quasi-medieval Paris into a "modern" capital that would make France proud. [[Victor Hugo]] found the town so beautiful he said: "Take [[Versailles, Yvelines|Versailles]], add [[Antwerp]], and you have Bordeaux".

In 1870, at the beginning of the [[Franco-Prussian war]] against [[Kingdom of Prussia|Prussia]], the French government temporarily relocated to Bordeaux from Paris.<ref name="britannica" /> That recurred during [[World War I]] and again very briefly during [[World War II]], when it became clear that Paris would fall into German hands.