Entrance Exposition Universal Paris France
Paris President Loubet Conducts the Short Ceremonies The day s ceremonies were a peculiar mixture of sumptuous splendor in the Salle des Fetes and widespread confusion and unreadiness elsewhere The Exposition Universelle was a World s Fair held in Paris France from May 6 to October 31 1889 It was held during the year of the 100th anniversary of the storming of the Bastille an event traditionally considered as the symbol for the beginning of the French Revolution The main symbol of the Fair was the Eiffel Tower which was completed in 1889 and served as the entrance arch to the Fair A Negro village village negre where 400 indigenous people were displayed constituted the major attraction The Exposition covered a total area of 0 96 km including the Champ de Mars the Trocadero the quai d Orsay a part of the Seine and the Invalides esplanade Transport around the Exposition was partly provided by a 3 kilometres 1 9 mi 600 millimetres 2 ft 0 in gauge railway by Decauville It was claimed that the railway carried 6 342 446 visitors in just six months of operation Some of the locomotives used on this line later saw service on the Chemins de Fer du Calvados At the Exposition the French composer Claude Debussy first heard Javanese gamelan music performed by an ensemble from Java David Toop a modern musical critic denotes Debussy s experience at the fair to mark the start of an ambient music one which has since grown through a tree of successive musical innovators including Sun Ra John Cage and innumerable others Toop expounds upon Debussy s importance in his 1995 exegesis on ambient sound Ocean of Sound Heineken received the Grand Prix English Grand Prize at the exposition Digitally restored Art 1890 1900 Photochrom or Photochrome is used to create a color print from a black and white photo negative using between four and fourteen lithograph stones made from rocklike substances to colorize the print with several differen
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