VERY RARE POSTER FROM THE ROUEN COLONIAL EXHIBITION IN 1896
The Rouen National and Colonial Exhibition was a national and colonial exhibition that took place in Rouen in 1896.
History
The exhibition took place between the Champ-de-Mars and the Côte Sainte-Catherine. It was inaugurated on May 16, 1896 in the presence of ministers Henry Boucher and André Lebon, General Giovanninelli, Prefect Hendlé and Deputy Mayor Marcel Cartier.
President Félix Faure visited on August 14 and 15.
Jules Adeline presented a reconstruction of Old Rouen and Louis Tinayre presented a diorama of Madagascar.
One of the attractions of the exhibition is the "Negro village" - of Sudanese and Senegalese, installed on the Champ-de-Mars by the photographer Joannès Barbier.
"All these people of such diverse races and such distant countries are gathered around a small lake on which float canoes made of a single tree trunk and where, all day long, the multitude of young Negroes dive in search of the "small coins" that visitors throw them".
600,000 visitors rush there.
Among the visitors are Jean Lorrain and Octave Uzanne.
The Norman pavilion of the exhibition was reassembled in 1897 at 9 avenue du Général-Leclerc in Déville-lès-Rouen.
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