Cérémonie d'inauguration Le maréchal-président de la République et le cortège officiel traversant le parc du Trocadéro still image engravings (prints) 1879 fre 1 engraving; 22.7 x 22.7 cm reformatted digital Opening ceremony of the 1878 World Fair. The 1878 Fair was the first one in France to be organized under a republican regime. The president at the time was Maréchal Mac Mahon, who had close ties with the royalist political circles. He participated to the opening ceremony on May 1rst, even though many buildings of the fair had not been completely finished. On this image, he is standing in profile in front of the Trocadéro fountains, right under the statue of the bull. The building in the background is one of the two galleries of the Trocadéro Palace. Paris Universal Exposition of 1878 MacMahon, Edme Patrice Maurice 1808-1893 comte de ArchitectureMonumentsCity PlanningConstructionGovernment and PoliticsPolitical & governmental figuresSocial LifeEntertainment1871-1940 (The Third Republic) Paris: Capital of the 19th Century 6 http://dl.lib.brown.edu/paris 2-SIZE T802.C1 E9x 1879 1254171760316659 L' Exposition universelle de 1878 illustrée de Vandière, Simon creator fr Paris Calmann Lévy 1879 No Copyright - United StatesCollection is open for research.