zed and capitalism could thrive yet the workers role continued to diminish to a point where they were no longer an important person, simply a body to push along the industrial revolution. With these new technologies were new exploitation and a diminishing worker-employee relationship. The 1861 American Civil War that led to the emancipation of slaves in the United States had a ripple effect from across the ocean. This would eventually cause the Second Republic to declare the proclamation of Universal Suffrage and the Abolition of Slavery. In 1853, Napoleon III appointed Baron Georges-Eugene Haussmann to design the reconstruction of Paris (Jordan 25). The goal was to transform the ancient city of narrow streets and medieval spaces in to a modern European capital city (Jordan 25). Haussmann built eighty-five miles of new roads, including the Rue de Rivoli and the Boulevard Saint-Michel (Jordan 32). Along these new streets modern architecture was soon developed in accordance to the Emperors authority. This Haussmanization created a city that became the centre of the bourgeoisie, although the poor were not easily discarded and would soon reappear in the city in even more cloistered and squalid areas (Jordan 50). For the advancement of France, Napoleon III launched a successful military campaign against Austria, Russia and China (Honour and Fleming 668). However soon after the Exposition Universelles in Paris, Napoleon IIIs cursed ancestry caught up with him (Honour and Fleming 668). He miscalculated his countrys battle readiness and saw Paris fall to the Prussians in September of 1870 and soon saw his own empire fall shortly thereafter (Honour and Fleming 669). War continued to rage in Paris when the city erupted in revolution of the Commune of 1871. Victor Hugo called it the annee terrible, deservedly so as 20, 000 Parisians were slain within a #week and civil war broke out on the streets. (Honour and Fleming...
