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Why did the French government dramatically redesign Paris in the 1850s to feature those famously massive, wide boulevards?

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Why did the French government dramatically redesign Paris in the 1850s to feature those famously massive, wide boulevards?

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Why did the French government dramatically redesign Paris in the 1850s to feature those famously massive, wide boulevards?
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