This tourist map of Paris published for the Universal Exhibition of 1889, the centenary of the French Revolution - boycotted by the monarchies of the time but acclaimed by 28 million visitors - places on the same level « classic » permanent monuments and supposedly temporary buildings erected for this...
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This tourist map of Paris published for the Universal Exhibition of 1889, the centenary of the French Revolution - boycotted by the monarchies of the time but acclaimed by 28 million visitors - places on the same level « classic » permanent monuments and supposedly temporary buildings erected for this occasion or for previous exhibitions. The most famous of them, the Eiffel Tower, then surrounded by exhibition pavilions on the Champ-de-Mars and the Trocadéro, remained the highest monument in the world for forty years.
Map
Folded size: 18,3 × 33,2 cm
Unfolded size: 85 × 68 cm
A card on the front, its story on the back
Bilingual French-English
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