Keywords: La fête du 15 Aoüt 1867 sur le Trocadéro.jpg The fifteenth of August had been declared a national holiday by Napoléon I The date coincided with his birthday and with the signature of the concordat whereby the Pope agreed to grant legitimacy to the Emperor The Saint-Napoléon day as it was called disappeared during the Restauration and the July Monarchy but Napoléon III instaured it back This print shows the events on the fifteenth of August at the Paris World Fair On the same day the Emperor and Empress inaugurated the newly built Opéra Garnier 1868 engraving 17 8 x 23 5 cm Institution Brown University Library object history exhibition history credit line Grand album de l'Exposition Universelle 1867 150 dessins par les premiers artistes de la France et de l'étranger Paris Michel Lévy Frères 1868 accession number 1254169742583933 PD-old Engravings of Paris Images of Paris from the Brown University Library Exposition Universelle 1867 Events in Jardins du Trocadéro 1868 engravings |