{"id":2880,"date":"2008-02-29T01:12:49","date_gmt":"2008-02-29T01:12:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2008\/02\/29\/the-palais-du-trocadero\/"},"modified":"2009-01-21T05:14:06","modified_gmt":"2009-01-21T05:14:06","slug":"the-palais-du-trocadero","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2008\/02\/29\/the-palais-du-trocadero\/","title":{"rendered":"The Palais du Trocad\u00e9ro"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/7\/70\/The_Trocadero%2C_Exposition_Universal%2C_1900%2C_Paris%2C_France.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/02\/trocadero.jpg\" alt=\"trocadero.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>More <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2008\/01\/05\/ephemeral-architecture\/\">ephemeral architecture<\/a> and also another example of old <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2008\/01\/14\/the-evanescent-city\/\">exposition architecture<\/a>. The Palais du Trocad\u00e9ro was designed by Gabriel Davioud for the 1878 World&#8217;s Fair and until its demolition in the 1930s faced the Eiffel Tower across the Seine after that edifice had been constructed as the entrance arch for another fair, the Exposition Universelle of 1889. Davioud designed other less extravagant works for Paris, including the Fontaine St Michel which <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2006\/12\/19\/angels-2-the-angels-of-paris\/\">I photographed<\/a> during one of my visits there in 2006.<\/p>\n<p>The Trocad\u00e9ro is something of a heavy-handed confection, ostensibly \u201cMoorish\u201d in that Orientalist fashion favoured by 19th century architects. The <a href=\"http:\/\/paris1900.lartnouveau.com\/cartes_postales_anciennes\/le_trocadero.htm\" target=\"_blank\">numerous photographs<\/a> of the place give it the same quality of ghostly grandeur that so many these long-demolished buildings possess; we&#8217;re able to look at a very real place which has now vanished utterly. The bridge in the picture below still stands, however, and the balcony of the Trocad\u00e9ro&#8217;s replacement, the Palais de Chaillot, gives great views of the Eiffel Tower and the river.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/02\/trocadero1.jpg\" alt=\"trocadero1.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Previously on { feuilleton }<br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2008\/01\/14\/the-evanescent-city\/\">The Evanescent City<\/a><br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2008\/01\/05\/ephemeral-architecture\/\">Ephemeral architecture<\/a><br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2007\/09\/30\/winsor-mccays-hippodrome-souvenirs\/\">Winsor McCay\u2019s Hippodrome souvenirs<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More ephemeral architecture and also another example of old exposition architecture. The Palais du Trocad\u00e9ro was designed by Gabriel Davioud for the 1878 World&#8217;s Fair and until its demolition in the 1930s faced the Eiffel Tower across the Seine after that edifice had been constructed as the entrance arch for another fair, the Exposition Universelle &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2008\/02\/29\/the-palais-du-trocadero\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Palais du Trocad\u00e9ro&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[8,12],"tags":[120,717],"class_list":["post-2880","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-architecture","category-photography","tag-expositions","tag-winsor-mccay"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pq7rV-Ks","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2880","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2880"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2880\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}