The 1900 Paris World's Fair: Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes Shown to the World.

From April 15 to November 12, 1900, Paris hosted its fifth World's Fair. For seven months, 51 million visitors wandered through the 112 hectares occupied by the exhibition along the Seine and on the esplanades that spanned the Seine, stretching from Les Invalides to Place de la Concorde and from the Champ-de-Mars to Trocadéro. Independent or grouped within the same building, divided by country or region, by technique or product, the works and objects on display occupied hundreds of spaces. Thus, the presence of Auvergne, like that of Rhône-Alpes, can be seen in the immense architectures that are the Palais des Industries françaises or the Galerie des Machines - in which the Lumière Brothers presented their film on a screen measuring 21 by 16 meters - for industry, or the Grand Palais des Champs-Élysées for fine arts, without forgetting the restaurant La Belle Meunière which offered its customers the best products of Auvergne. Glorifying triumphant industry, the Universal Exhibition puts modern products and manufacturing processes in parallel.