Exposition Universelle (1867)

<p>The Exposition Universelle of 1867 , better known in English as the 1867 Paris Exposition, was a <a href="/facts/World%27s_fair/FkkJJJ3W">world's fair</a> held in <a href="/facts/Paris/DrNHpwnA">Paris</a>, <a href="/facts/Second_French_Empire/5oS28M6v">France</a>, from 1 April to 3 November 1867. It was the <a href="/facts/List_of_world_expositions/LwrlVz1C">second</a> of ten major expositions held in the city between 1855 and 1937. A number of nations were represented at the fair. Following a decree of <a href="/facts/Napoleon_III_of_France/F29546rc">Emperor Napoleon III</a>, the exposition was prepared as early as 1864, in the midst of <a href="/facts/Haussmann%27s_renovation_of_Paris/CHVzVLcw">the renovation of Paris</a>, marking the culmination of the <a href="/facts/Second_French_Empire/5oS28M6v">Second French Empire</a>. Visitors included <a href="/facts/Tsar_Alexander_II/rcFpTjFH">Tsar Alexander II</a> of Russia, a brother of the <a href="/facts/William_I,_German_Emperor/6tKlMGlq">King William</a> and <a href="/facts/Otto_von_Bismarck/4EGd7TCI">Otto von Bismarck</a> of Prussia, Prince Metternich and <a href="/facts/Franz_Josef/EI1tYJGl">Franz Josef</a> of Austria, Ottoman Sultan <a href="/facts/Abd%C3%BClaziz/jDoFxyRF">Abdülaziz</a>, and the Khedive of Egypt <a href="/facts/Isma%27il_Pasha/aM4Y6lsf">Isma'il</a>.
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