L ' 1900 World Exposition held in Paris from April 14 to November 10 and topped 50 million visitors (only one in Osaka in 1970 did the same).
Many Parisian monuments were built for the exhibition, including the Gare de Lyon, Gare d'Orsay (now the Musee d'Orsay), the Alexander III Bridge, Grand Palais, La Ruche and the Petit Palais.
The Paris exhibition also saw the triumph of the cinema of the Lumiere brothers. In
Paris the same year also hosted the Games of the II Olympiad: Baron Pierre de Coubertin, founder of the International Olympic Committee, had to cede control of the game in favor of the government.
of the event in Paris there are many examples in the Fund at the Library Pasqui Tito "Saffi" Forlì, for example an interesting correspondence, business cards, exhibitors, newspaper clippings, menus for meals, hotel bills, savings comedies.
Among the many achievements undertaken for the exhibition stand work for the first line of the Paris metro (still known as "ligne 1"), which began in 1897 and ended in 1900, in time for the opening of Expo 1900. At first it seemed destined to catch on the resolution of the elevated railway, as it would lead to lower development costs, faster construction and less risk to the foundations of buildings and sewage systems and services in the areas affected by the works. Considerations prevailed, however, "aesthetics" (the viaducts on the streets would inevitably "cut in two" sides of buildings and monuments, and reduced the amount of natural light in homes and in the streets below the bridges themselves.)
The "technical" construction of underground tunnels was quite simple: "gut" the main streets, were digging to make the tunnel, and finally "collapse" the whole. That is why the vast majority of the galleries are really shallow and the location of the lines (especially older ones) closely follows that of the streets above.
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