Alysa Salzberg's blog

                                                                                          (original image source) The Siege of Paris changed the city in some significant ways. Once-magnificent parks were stripped of their trees or used for pasture, the Comédie Française was transformed into a private hospital, and the southern reaches of the city suffered damage from roughly a month of shelling from the Prussians.  And yet, there are no traces of any of this today.   The physical remains of the Siege of Paris are instead small-scale items, like the bread souvenirs  I wrote about a few months ago. Or the metal cylinders full of letters that are still buried beneath the Seine.   During the Siege, Parisians weren’t able to get or receive mail or te...