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Photographer: Postcard by the Detroit Publishing Company
Taken: Circa 1900
Caption: The Trocadero, Exposition Universelle, 1900, Paris, France
Additional Description: Before the Palais de Chaillot, the Palais du Trocadéro stood opposite the Eiffel Tower. It was built by the architect Davioud for the 1878 Universal Exhibition. "At the time [in the 1930s], this building, ranging all along the Chaillot hill overlooking the valley of the Seine, was considered to be an outmoded relic of the eclectic 'fin de siècle' style", according to the Cité de l'architecture et du patrimoine site. It was made up of an immense rotunda – in line with the Champ de Mars – housing a 5,000 seat festival hall, flanked by two towers, and, symmetrically on either side, two large curvilinear wings, already sketching out the outlines of the future 1930s edifice. - France.FR ("The Offical Website of France")

Image courtesy of the Library of Congress
Submitted: July 15, 2015.
Database Locator Identification Number: p315565
File Size: 0.297 Megabytes

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