http://www.trippert.comTrippert : share and blog your trips120 http://www.trippert.com/article/810In the mid-nineteenth century, Napoleon III commissioned Baron Georges-Eug ne Haussmann to rebuild Paris for the modern era. Up until this point, Paris had been much like other European cities: dirty, dark, disorderly, and in grave danger of fire or plague. But Haussmann changed all that he swept away most of the teetering medievalTue, 29 May 2007 03:38:43 America/New_York