Their military and industrial successes would be made to eclipse the triumphs of French culture. 'The exposition of 1900,' the organizers of the fifth Parisian exposition universelle later wrote, 'will define the philosophy and express the synthesis of the 19th century.' If the Germans were to make the definitions, the luster of France would darken. They realized that the country which hosted the exposition at the threshold of the new century would be the interpreter of the entire nineteenth century to the world. This news was bad enough but when Le Figaro reported later that month that the Germans were thinking of holding their event in 1900, there was consternation among French politicians, industrialists, and intellectuals. Then, in June of 1892, the Germans announced that they were planning an international exposition in 1896.

She had shown the world that Paris was the queen city of expositions that French engineering genius was second to none and that, even without the official participation of other nations, the allurements and advantages of a world's fair in Paris were so great that few established or aspiring manufacturers could afford to stay away. THE BATTLE FOR THE EXPOSITION For three years following the exposition of 1889, France gloried in her triumph. Signature Buildings of San Francisco Backstoryīy Arthur Chandler Expanded and revised from World's Fair magazine, Volume VII, Number 3, 1987.Presentations for Biography of a City: San Francisco.Humanities Course Keynote Presentatioms.Biography of the Duc de La Rochefoucauld.

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