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| Keywords: Le palais du Trocadéro, 1889.jpg The Palais du Trocadéro had been constructed for the 1878 World Fair by Davioud and Bourdais The building had three parts the monumental central rotunda served as a reception hall and concert hall which could contain about 5 000 people The two galleries on each side ran from the rotunda to the outside of the building and were inspired by St Peter's Piazza in Rome In 1889 the galleries served as exhibition halls for horticultural displays The two towers on each side of the rotunda were modelled after the Algiers Mosque which at the time served as a cathedral The Palais was eventually damaged by a fire in 1935 and no longer exists This view is a front view of the building whose facade was facing the Eiffel Tower located on the other side of the Seine River 1889 engraving 23 6 x 31 4 cm Institution Brown University Library object history exhibition history credit line Huard Charles-Lucien Livre d'or de l'Exposition Tome 1 Paris L Boulanger 1889 accession number 1254148971859375 PD-old Engravings of Paris Images of Paris from the Brown University Library Palais du Trocadéro 1889 engravings | ||||
