Entitled: "Fountain Coutan and the Palace of Fine Arts, Paris Exposition, 1889." The fountain was created by Jules-Félix Coutan and called "France Bearing the Torch of Civilization". The Exposition Universelle of 1889 was a World's Fair held in Paris, Fra
Entitled: "Fountain Coutan and the Palace of Fine Arts, Paris Exposition, 1889." The fountain was created by Jules-Félix Coutan and called "France Bearing the Torch of Civilization". The Exposition Universelle of 1889 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 considered symbolic of the beginning of the French Revolution. The fair included a reconstruction of the Bastille and its surrounding neighborhood, but with the interior courtyard covered with a blue ceiling decorated with fleur-de-lys and used as a ball room and gathering place. The main symbol of the Fair was the Eiffel Tower, which served as the entrance arch to the Fair. The 1889 fair was held on the Champ de Mars in Paris, which had been the site of the earlier Paris Universal Exhibition of 1867, and would also be the site of the 1900 exposition.
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