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Strasbourg
Posted May 30, 2007 at 02:51 AM by lapetite
Feeling the need to escape Paris for a bit, I grabbed a few friends and caught a train bound for Strasbourg, in the Alsace region of France. Although it's a bit far for a day-trip, Strasbourg makes an excellent escape from the hustle and bustle of the capital. Located on the border between France and Germany, Alsace blends both [...]
Haussmann-free Paris
Posted May 29, 2007 at 03:38 AM by lapetite
In the mid-nineteenth century, Napoleon III commissioned Baron Georges-Eugène 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 medieval [...]
