The Arcades Project - Operi

Le 1iiomphe du kaleidoscope, ou Le Tombeau du Jeu chinois (11le
Triumph of dle Kaleidoscope, or The Demise of the Chinese
Game), 1818. Courtesy of the Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris.
See F7a,5.
are debased., our architecture diminished." Cited in Louis Cheronnet ""Les Trois
Grand-meres de l'expositioll," Vendredi, April 30, 1937. [F8,2]
Supposedly there were trees within Musard's ""Harmony Hall," on the Boulevard
Montmartre. [F8,3]
""It was in 1783, in the construction of the Theatre Franais, that iron was employed
fot, the first time on a large scale, by the architect Loms. Never perhaps,
has a work so audacious been attempted. When, in 1900, the theater was rehuilt in
the aftermath of a fire, it was with a weight of iron one hundred times greater than
that which the architect Louis had used for the same trusswork. Construction in
iron has provided a succession of buildings, of' which the great reading room of the
Bihliotheque Nationale hy Lahrouste was the first, and one of the most. suceessful.
... But iron requires costly maintenance . ... The world exhibition of' 1889