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5 unusual facts about Exposition Internationale des Arts et Techniques dans la Vie Moderne


All-Russia Exhibition Centre

In 2008 the "big constructivist pavilion" was built as a replica of the original Soviet pavilion of 1937 Expo that stood opposite the Nazi pavilion.

Clara Novello Davies

She was still conducting into her seventies when her New York-based Novello Davies Artist Choir was invited to the 1937 Paris Exposition.

Garden of the Provinces and Territories

The garden was first envisioned by Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King and the French urbanist, Jacques Gréber, at a meeting at the 1937 Exposition Internationale des Arts et Techniques dans la Vie Moderne in Paris.

Jardin d'Acclimatation railway

In 1945, the shortage of gasoline caused the replacement of the gasoline locomotives with battery tractors, which probably came from the Universal Exhibition of 1937, with their wheels with tires running outside the rails.

Quatuor pour la fin du temps

The music is arranged from an earlier, unpublished piece, "Oraison" from "Fêtes des belles eaux" for 6 Ondes Martenots, performed at the Paris World Fair in 1937.


Dénes Györgyi

He also designed numerous pavilions for world fairs: Barcelona (1929), the Brussels International Exposition (1935), and the Paris Exposition Internationale des Arts et Techniques dans la Vie Moderne (1937).


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