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available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. The Palais de
l'Industrie (Palace of Industry) was an exhibition hall erected for the
Paris World Fair in 1855. It was mainly designed by Jean-Marie-Victor
Viel and Alexandre Barrault, and finally destroyed in 1897 to make way
for the Grand Palais of the World Fair in 1900. Emperor Napoleon III
wished the World's Fair of 1855, which followed London's Great
Exhibition by four years, to prove the superiority of the French by
surpassing the British fair in every way. In particular, he desired a
spectacular exhibition hall to rival The Crystal Palace. This building,
the Palais de l'Industrie, was to be located between the Seine River and
the Champs-Élysées.
