Exposition Universelle de 1889

8/11/2019 Exposition Universelle de 1889

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The 1889 ParisWorlds Fair


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The influence of French history and society

The role of the U.S., and our relationship with France

Racial and ethnic ambiguities


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Thomas Alva EdisonPalais des Colonies

Technology...Arts....

Culture...


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Demolition of Bastille, July 17, 1789.

Pierre Antoine de Machy

Reign of Terror & French Revolution......Directorate ...

...Consulate ...

Emperor Napoleon...King Charles...

...July Revolution......King Louis-Philippe...

...Second Republic...

...President Napoleon III ???

Emperor Napoleon III...The Second French Empire...

...Franco-Prussian war......French Commune Revolution...

The Third Republic


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At the end of the nineteenth century, few French citizens

doubted that they were materially and morally superior to -and that they lived in greater freedom than

the rest of the earths inhabitants...

-Alice ConklinA Mission to Civilize: The Republican Idea of Empire in France and West Africa, 1895-1930


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...shady dealings of a government of squanderers...

- Auguste Boucher in Le Correspondant May 8th

, 1889


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A tower with a "distinctive character

- Gustave Eiffel


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linked thanks to steam and electricity bridging a conquered ocean...... conquering and superior races

- Charles De Varigny,America at the World Fair

Wild Bills French brochure mentions thatIndians are inferiors because they had:

no literature, almost no thought [and] apurely animal existence

- William F. Cody, aka Buffalo Bill

Disneyland Paris


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...a turning point in the history of French music, andmodern music in general...- Annegret Fauser

...the repetitiveness of industrial work will lead to

the loss of creative powerG. Valbert, 1889

charming witchcraft -De Vog

...the audience can enjoy a festive ambiance in thecompany of Sheriff Goofy and a live musical act...

They lead a purely animalexistence William Buffalo Bill Cody


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...represents a unique microcosm of the aesthetics, practice, and politicsof music in late-nineteenth-century France.

- Annegret Fauser,Musical Encounters At The 1889 Paris World's Fair

A musical orgy...

A gigantic encyclopedia, in which nothing was forgotten... "


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HOW THE WORLD WAS DAZZLED


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The Eiffel Tower: Facts and Figures

Height: 302.6 m (now 320.8 m withTV mast)

Number of steps: 1792Number of lifts: 8Ground area: 129.22 m

Weight: 7350 tonsNumber of iron pieces: 12,000Number of rivets: 1,050,846, driven

into7 million holes by a workforce of 200menDaily height increment: 47 cm

Visibility: 85 kmNumber of visitors per day: 4,200

Total number of visitors during the1889 World Exposition: 3,799,040


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Ch d M i l bli


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Champ de Mars is a large public greenspace in Paris, France, located in theseventh arrondissement, between theEiffel Tower to the northwest and thecole Militaire to the southeast. The parkis named after the Campus Martius inRome, a tribute to the Roman god of war...

Central Dome of theWorld Fair in Paris 1889


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Fountain Coutan 1889 Paris ExpositionA Paris Exposition photo of the FountainCoutan with the Central Dome in thebackground, Paris 1889. Sculpted by

Jules-Felix Coutan(18481939) was a Frenchsculptor and educator.


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Pavilion of Bolivia

Pavilion of Brazil

Pavilion ofVenezuela

EgyptianBazaar andCairo Street(Rue du Caire)

Central African

and LaplandHouses

Persian,Germanic, andGallic Houses

PavilionBrault

Pavilion ofCochin China
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Views of theQuay dOrsay


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Notable inventionscreated by Thomsonduring this period include

an arc-lighting system, anautomatically regulatedthree-coil dynamo, amagnetic lightningarrester, and a local powertransformer.

Thomas Edison was an American inventor, scientist, andbusinessman who developed many devices that greatlyinfluenced life around the world, including thephonograph, the motion picture camera, and a long-lasting, practical electric light bulb. Dubbed "The Wizardof Menlo Park" (now called Edison, New Jersey) by anewspaper reporter, he was one of the first inventors toapply the principles of mass production and largeteamwork to the process of invention, and therefore isoften credited with the creation of the first industrialresearch laboratory
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Palace of DiverseIndustries


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Fairgoers try out the telephone.

Paul Decauvilles narrow gauge railway.

CommemorativeBronze Medal
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Website:

"1889 World's Fair Prints and Photographs Reading Room." Library of Congress. Web. 18 Feb. 2011.

. "Expo Universelle 1889." Champagne : Grandes Marques Et Maisons. Web. 17 Feb. 2011. .

Exposition universelle de 1889 (Paris, France) [Exposition universelle de 1889(Paris, France) : International Art & Artists File]. Web. 19,

Feb. 2011.

Jonnes, Jill. Eiffel's Tower: and the World's Fair Where

Buffalo Bill Beguiled Paris, the Artists Quarreled, and

Thomas Edison Became a Count. New York, NY:

Viking, 2009. Print.

Laffont, Robert. The Illustrated History of

Paris and the Parisians.Garden City, NY: Doubleday,

1958. Print.

Works Cited

Monument of Bastille


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Berthier-Foglar, Susanne. "The 1889 World Exhibition in Paris: The French, the Age of Machines, and the Wild West."Nineteenth-CenturyContexts31.2 (2009): 129-142.Academic Search Complete. EBSCO. Web. 18 Feb. 2011.

Fauser, Annegret. Musical encounters at the 1889 Paris World's Fair. Eastman studies in music, Volume 32.Rochester, NY. Boydell & Brewer, 2005.Text.

Conklin, Alice. A Mission to Civilize: The Republican Idea of Empire in France and West Africa, 1895-1930. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Pr. www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1G1-55207339.html

Boucher, Auguste. Chronique Politique. Le Correspondant (8 May 1889): 611620.

De Mazade, Ch. Chronique de la Quinzaine. La Revue des Deux Mondes (14 April 1889): 945955.

Schneider, Howard. "Eiffel's Tower: And the World's Fair Where Buffalo Bill Beguiled Paris, the Artists Quarreled, and Thomas Edison Became aCount." Humanist69.6 (2009): 46-47.Academic Search Complete. EBSCO. Web. 18 Feb. 2011.

Valbert, G. Lgedes machines. La Revue des Deux Mondes (1 June 1889): 686697.

De Varigny, C. LAmrique lExpositionUniverselle. La Revue des Deux Mondes (15 October 1889): 837866.

De Vog, Eugne-Melchior. A travers lExpositionII LarchitectureLes feux et les eaux Le globe. La Revue des

Deux Mondes (15 July 1889): 440455.

Morton, Patricia A. "National and colonial: The Musee des Colonies at the.."Art Bulletin80.2 (1998): 357.Academic Search Complete. EBSCO.Web. 21 Feb. 2011.

Schuyler van Rensselaer. Impressions of the International Exhibition of 1889. The Century (Dec. 1889): 316318.Making of America. 15 May 2004.


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IMAGES

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Palais des Arts Libraux, from beneath the Eiffel Tower.1889. National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC. Exposition Universelle de 1889.Web.18 March 2011.

Palais des Beaux-Arts.1889. National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC. Exposition Universelle de 1889.Web. 18 March 2011.

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Lazarnick, Nathan. Thomas Alva Edison holding a lightbulb. 1911. George Eastman House, Rochester, New York. Eastmanhouse.org. Web. 18March 2011.

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de Machy, Pierre Antoine. Demolition of Bastille, July 17, 1789. ND. Muse Carnavalet, Florence, Italy. Scalarchives.com. Web. 18 March 2011.

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Esplanade des Invalides. 1889. National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC. Exposition Universelle de 1889.Web. 18 March 2011.

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Eiffel Tower (Tour de 300 metres).1889. National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC. Exposition Universelle de 1889.Web. 18 March 2011.

Panorama of the Champ-de-Mars.1889. National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC. Exposition Universelle de 1889.Web. 18 March 2011.

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Illustration from the booklet LOuestSauvage de Buffalo Bill. Rcits Amricains. The McCracken Research Library, Buffalo Bill HistoricalCenter, Cody, Wyoming, MS6.6.a.1.6.

Buffalo Bills Wild West Show with Mickey and Friends. Illustration from the article Final call for Buffalo Bills Wild West Show natives.March 17 2011 Disneyland Paris Web 18 March 2011

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