{"id":9810,"date":"2011-08-15T02:54:09","date_gmt":"2011-08-15T01:54:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/?p=9810"},"modified":"2011-08-15T02:54:09","modified_gmt":"2011-08-15T01:54:09","slug":"le-grand-globe-celeste-1900","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2011\/08\/15\/le-grand-globe-celeste-1900\/","title":{"rendered":"Le Grand Globe C\u00e9leste, 1900"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I’m sure I’ll run out of things to say on this subject eventually but it’s showing no sign of happening yet. In an exposition with its fair share of unusual buildings, the Grand Globe C\u00e9leste in the Paris Exposition Universelle of 1900 was one of the more notable constructions. An enormous globe built on the banks of the Seine close to the Champs de Mars, the Grand Globe C\u00e9leste was some 50 meters in diameter with its attractions including a restaurant and an exhibition space in the interior showing planetary orbits and maps of the stars. Enormous globes became a common feature of later world’s fairs which makes me wonder whether this example was the first of its kind. A far larger structure<\/a> was proposed for the 1893 exposition in Chicago but never built.<\/p>\n

The poster here is from the archives at Gallica<\/a>. Searching around for other images turned up a wiki I hadn’t come across before devoted to the Exposition Universelle<\/a>. The page there for the Grand Globe<\/a> has a picture of one of the exposition’s tragedies caused when a footbridge leading to the attraction collapsed, killing five people. (The intact footbridge can be seen on this view<\/a> facing towards the river.)<\/p>\n

Previously on { feuilleton }
\n\u2022 Tony Grubhofer\u2019s Exposition Universelle sketches<\/a>
\n\u2022 The Cambodian Pavilion, Paris, 1900<\/a>
\n\u2022 Le Manoir a l\u2019Envers<\/a>
\n\u2022 Suchard at the Exposition Universelle<\/a>
\n\u2022 Esquisses D\u00e9coratives by Ren\u00e9 Binet<\/a>
\n\u2022 Le Palais de l\u2019Optique, 1900<\/a>
\n\u2022 Exposition Universelle films<\/a>
\n\u2022 Exposition jewellery<\/a>
\n\u2022 Exposition Universelle catalogue<\/a>
\n\u2022 Exposition Universelle publications<\/a>
\n\u2022 Exposition cornucopia<\/a>
\n\u2022 Return to the Exposition Universelle<\/a>
\n\u2022 The Palais Lumineux<\/a>
\n\u2022 Louis Bonnier\u2019s exposition dreams<\/a>
\n\u2022 Exposition Universelle, 1900<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’m sure I’ll run out of things to say on this subject eventually but it’s showing no sign of happening yet. In an exposition with its fair share of unusual buildings, the Grand Globe C\u00e9leste in the Paris Exposition Universelle of 1900 was one of the more notable constructions. An enormous globe built on the … Continue reading “Le Grand Globe C\u00e9leste, 1900”<\/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":[8,4,13],"tags":[120,1735,2764],"class_list":["post-9810","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-architecture","category-design","category-science","tag-expositions","tag-rene-binet","tag-tony-grubhofer"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pq7rV-2ye","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9810","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=9810"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9810\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}