The 1889 Paris

Worlds Fair
The influence of French history and society
The role of the U.S., and our relationship with France
Racial and ethnic ambiguities

Thomas Alva Edison
Palais des Colonies
Technology...
Arts....
Culture...
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

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

...shady dealings of a government of squanderers...
- Auguste Boucher in Le Correspondant May 8
th
, 1889

A tower with a "distinctive character
- Gustave Eiffel
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 that
Indians are inferiors because they had:

no literature, almost no thought [and] a
purely animal existence
- William F. Cody, aka Buffalo Bill
Disneyland Paris
...a turning point in the history of French music, and
modern music in general... - Annegret Fauser
...the repetitiveness of industrial work will lead to
the loss of creative power G. Valbert, 1889
charming witchcraft -De Vog
...the audience can enjoy a festive ambiance in the
company of Sheriff Goofy and a live musical act...
They lead a purely animal existence William Buffalo Bill Cody
...represents a unique microcosm of the aesthetics, practice, and politics
of 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... "
HOW THE WORLD WAS DAZZLED
The Eiffel Tower: Facts and Figures

Height: 302.6 m (now 320.8 m with
TV mast)
Number of steps: 1792
Number of lifts: 8
Ground area: 129.22 m
Weight: 7350 tons
Number of iron pieces: 12,000
Number of rivets: 1,050,846, driven
into
7 million holes by a workforce of 200
men
Daily height increment: 47 cm
Visibility: 85 km
Number of visitors per day: 4,200
Total number of visitors during the
1889 World Exposition: 3,799,040



Champ de Mars is a large public green
space in Paris, France, located in the
seventh arrondissement, between the
Eiffel Tower to the northwest and the
cole Militaire to the southeast. The park
is named after the Campus Martius in
Rome, a tribute to the Roman god of war...
Central Dome of the
World Fair in Paris 1889
Fountain Coutan 1889 Paris Exposition
A Paris Exposition photo of the Fountain
Coutan with the Central Dome in the
background, Paris 1889. Sculpted by
Jules-Felix Coutan (18481939) was a French
sculptor and educator.

Pavilion of Bolivia
Pavilion of Brazil
Pavilion of
Venezuela
Egyptian
Bazaar and
Cairo Street
(Rue du Caire)

Central African
and Lapland
Houses
Persian,
Germanic, and
Gallic Houses
Pavilion
Brault
Pavilion of
Cochin China




Views of the
Quay dOrsay
Notable inventions
created by Thomson
during this period include
an arc-lighting system, an
automatically regulated
three-coil dynamo, a
magnetic lightning
arrester, and a local power
transformer.
Thomas Edison was an American inventor, scientist, and
businessman who developed many devices that greatly
influenced life around the world, including the
phonograph, the motion picture camera, and a long-
lasting, practical electric light bulb. Dubbed "The Wizard
of Menlo Park" (now called Edison, New Jersey) by a
newspaper reporter, he was one of the first inventors to
apply the principles of mass production and large
teamwork to the process of invention, and therefore is
often credited with the creation of the first industrial
research laboratory
Palace of Diverse
Industries
Fairgoers try out the telephone.
Paul Decauvilles narrow gauge railway.
Commemorative
Bronze Medal


Website:


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Slide 1:
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.

Slide 2:
Lazarnick, Nathan. Thomas Alva Edison holding a lightbulb. 1911. George Eastman House, Rochester, New York. Eastmanhouse.org. Web. 18
March 2011.

Slide 4:
de Machy, Pierre Antoine. Demolition of Bastille, July 17, 1789. ND. Muse Carnavalet, Florence, Italy. Scalarchives.com. Web. 18 March 2011.

Slide 6:
Esplanade des Invalides. 1889. National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC. Exposition Universelle de 1889. Web. 18 March 2011.

Slide 7:
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.

Slide 9:
Illustration from the booklet LOuest Sauvage de Buffalo Bill. Rcits Amricains. The McCracken Research Library, Buffalo Bill Historical
Center, 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.