. Exposition universelle, 1900 : the chefs-d'uvre. n-tented man, whose mind will not cease to be filled with all those marvelsof which he has heard, in the midst of this delirious blaze {ce flamhoie-ment en delire). It is a crime, Messieurs, to incite to these unwholesomeundertakings a population which, up to this time, has been preserved byits distance from the cities from the contagion of the Socialist his peroration, the orator rose to questions of international politics;he recalled to the memory of his colleagues the fact that France foundher diplomatic action paralyzed in 1867
. Exposition universelle, 1900 : the chefs-d'uvre. n-tented man, whose mind will not cease to be filled with all those marvelsof which he has heard, in the midst of this delirious blaze {ce flamhoie-ment en delire). It is a crime, Messieurs, to incite to these unwholesomeundertakings a population which, up to this time, has been preserved byits distance from the cities from the contagion of the Socialist his peroration, the orator rose to questions of international politics;he recalled to the memory of his colleagues the fact that France foundher diplomatic action paralyzed in 1867 because of the Exposition thenbeing held, and he much feared that similar conditions might prevail in1900. This argument had already been raised in the Chamber ofDeputies by others of the opponents of the enterprise, who assertedthat the Exposition of 1867 had cost France Luxembourg, and that of1878, the New Hebrides, on which the naval lieutenant Hortus hadplanted the tricolor. PRINCIPAL FACADE OF THE PETIT PALAIS,AVENUE NICOLAS II PHOTOGRAVURE. ARCHITECTURE The topographical arrangements of the official plan also were highlydisapproved of by these dissidents,—the removal of the Palais derIndustrie, the construction of a new bridge and the opening-up of anew avenue to connect that of the Champs-Elysees with the Invalides,the erection of a new Palais des Beaux-Arts. Doubts were freely ex-pressed as to the architectural and aesthetic value of the latter; great regret was expressed at tlie demolition ofthe Palais de Ilndustrie, which, as oneof the Senators stated, though it was nota marvel, had the great merit of being with-out pretensions, of being modest, and of notpreventing the Champs-Elysees from being
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