Fireworks display held on the Pont-Neuf, Paris, in 1745. Each year, the firework manufacturers held the event on St. Louis' day, August 25. Lithograph from Paul Lacroix' The Eighteenth Century: Its Institutions, Customs, and Costumes, London, 1876.

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