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The favourite drive, Champs Elysees from Arch de Triumph, Paris - very early 1900s
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Written on reverse:.This lofty station on the summit of Napoleon's triumphal arch gives a marvelously fine outlook over the city. The Arch of the Star they call it; it stands for the Star of Empire, and it is the centre of twelve radiating avenues, long and broad and tree-bordered, stretching far, far out through beautiful Paris. At this moment we are looking a little south of east. The Elysee Palace, where the President lives, is on the left (N) side of the avenue near where those trees break the line of buildings. The trees massed on both sides of the avenue are in the park which gives its name to the avenue, the "Elysian Fields.".Between those trees and others which grow beyond in the gardens of the old Tuileries Palace we can see the tall obelisk in the Place de la Concorde, the scene of the execution of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette and almost three thousand other victims of the French Revolution. Notre Dame's two dark square towers rise a little farther away at the right from the old City Island in the Seine. Louis XVI and his family were brought into Paris in 1789 from Versailles ten miles away behind us (W) down this very avenue, surrounded by a hideous, howling mob..Now this stately avenue may still see private tragedies going on, but everything has a gay exterior, for the Champs Elysees, especially on Sunday afternoons, is the favourite Parisian promenade. It figures over and over again in the writings of the brilliant, beauty loving Parisians themselves. They love its sunshiny bravery of fine carriages and beautiful women, lovely to look at as flowers, its ceaseless, shifting, twinkling, sparkling movement of forms and faces. It is like a charming pageant on the stage of a theatre.
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After the Paris exposition of 1889, France gloried in her triumph. The time between the expositions of 1889 and 1900 was an era of economic prosperity. When Germans announced they want to hold the next world expo, French politicians, industrialists, and intellectuals realized that the country which hosted the exposition at the threshold of the new century "will define the philosophy and express the synthesis of the 19th century." Participating nations architects were given complete freedom to construct their national pavilions in any style, and display whatever they wished therein. The sole limit was the space assigned to each. The buildings of the 1900 exposition fall into two distinct categories, each representing an essential element of the spirit of 1900: Traditionalist 19th century-styled and Art Nouveau - the new style appropriate to the twentieth century. The pavilion to symbolize the new era was the Palace of Electricity. Many expositions gave visitors an illusory trip to remote lands. The Trans-Siberian was a simulated Peking to Moscow railway and "Tour of the World," located at the base of the Eiffel Tower featured moving canvas of the sights and people throughout the world. More than 83,000 exhibitors and attendance of 51 million visitors made it the largest of any exposition. The 127 congresses had attracted over 80,000 participants. The Gare d'Orsay railroad station (now the Musée d'Orsay), and two of original entrances of Paris Métro stations by Hector Guimard., and the Pont d’Alexandre, the Grand Palais and the Petit Palais opened with the exposition. The exposition Universelle of 1900 was the last of its kind held in France.
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