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    The Exposition Universelle of 1867 (French pronunciation: [ɛkspozisjɔ̃ ynivɛʁsɛl]), better known in English as the 1867 Paris Exposition, was a world's...
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    The 1873 Vienna World's Fair (German: Weltausstellung 1873 Wien) was the large world exposition that was held from 1 May to 31 October 1873 in the Austria-Hungarian...
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    fair" is commonly used in the United States, while the French term, Exposition universelle ("universal exhibition") is used in most of Europe and Asia; other...
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    Company or Suez Canal Company, full initial name Compagnie universelle du canal maritime de Suez (Universal Company of the Maritime Canal of Suez), sometimes...
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  • List of world's fairs (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    Lyon, France – Exposition Universelle et Internationale (1872) 1872 – Kyoto, Japan – Exhibition of Arts and Manufactures (1872) 1873 – London, United...
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  • The Bureau International des Expositions (BIE) sanctions world expositions. Some have been recognised retrospectively because they took place before the...
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    by the number of visitors at the 1867 Exposition, thus the city began to develop a new system of tramways in 1873. The omnibus continued to run, with larger...
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    women's exhibition building. In 1873, the Centennial Commission named Alfred T. Goshorn as the director general of the Exposition. The Fairmount Park Commission...
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    Herald, for $5000. The painting was then exhibited at the 1878 Exposition Universelle, before disappearing from public view for more than 100 years. The...
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  • Convalescence, Exposition Universelle (1878) Flagrant délit, Exposition Universelle (1878) L'intempérance, Exposition Universelle (1878) La fête de la grand'maman...
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    committee and the jury at the 1878 exposition de Paris. He was a collaborator of the "supplements" to the Biographie universelle des musiciens by François-Joseph...
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    the International Horse Show in Paris. The event was part of the Exposition Universelle, and later classified as part of the 1900 Summer Olympics. Montesquiou's...
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    József Meduna di Montecucco (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    Staatsdr. 1873. p. 160. "Catalogue officiel : liste des récompenses". Exposition universelle internationale de 1878, à Paris (in French). Ministère de l'agriculture...
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    Verne saw a model of the French submarine Plongeur at the 1867 Exposition Universelle, which inspired him while writing the novel. The title refers to...
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    Tome 1 (1847)". 1847. "Exposition universelle, 1878, Paris. Rapport sur les condiments, les stimulants, les sucres et les produits de la confiserie - Groupe...
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    the west wing of the Grand Palais (Palais d'Antin) built for the Exposition Universelle (1900) to designs by architect Albert-Félix-Théophile Thomas. On...
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    Navy submarine Plongeur, a model of which he had seen at the 1867 Exposition Universelle, three years before writing his novel. Nautilus is described by...
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    ceremony, a crown was made for him on the occasion of the 1855 Exposition Universelle in Paris. The gold crown had eagle-shaped arches and others in the...
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    Château de Compiègne. The painting was commissioned by Empress Eugénie de Montijo to be exhibited at the painting salon of the Exposition Universelle, which...
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  • de la gutta-percha, exposition universelle et internationale de Gand 1913, Lamy-Thorrilhon reporting Catalogue Général de l'Exposition Universelle de...
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  • de l'influence des idées anglaises et germaniques sur l'esprit français (1854) Les Derniers orateurs (1855) Le salon de 1855 : exposition universelle...
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    Paris 1867 Exposition Universelle - Paris 1873 Vienna World's Fair 1977 Léon Belly - Saint-Omer 1827-Paris 1877 - Rétrospective, fr: Musée de l'hôtel Sandelin...
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    Gabriel Ferrier (category Prix de Rome for painting)
    him a Gold Medal at the Exposition Universelle in 1889. He later was named a Professor of Design at the Maison d'éducation de la Légion d'honneur, then...
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    the Exposition Universelle (1889). That same year, he was named a Chevalier in the Légion d'honneur. Together with Ernest Meissonier, Pierre Puvis de Chavannes...
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    at Universal Exhibition in Brussels Expo '58 (1958) ( Exposition universelle et internationale de Bruxelles, Wereldtentoonstelling Brussel 1958 (Belgium)...
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    retronews.fr. Exposition Universelle de Vienne, 1873. France: produits industriels (in French). Exposition Universelle de Vienne. 1873 – via Internet...
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    Félix Auguste Clément (category Prix de Rome for painting)
    Annual International Exhibition of London (1872), Expo Vienna 1873 and the Exposition Universelle (1878). It is reported that Henri Rousseau obtained Clément's...
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  • Jules-Isidore Lafrance (category Prix de Rome for sculpture)
    at the Villa Médicis in Rome, in 1873. Acquired by the state in 1874, it was exhibited at the Exposition Universelle (1878), and was sent to the Museum...
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    XV at the Exposition Universelle (1889). He won a silver medal at l'Exposition [Historique?] de Madrid in 1892, a gold medal at the Exposition Internationale...
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    patented it in 1877, and received a honourable mention at the 1878 Exposition Universelle. He started production on the device and was able to quit his teaching...
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