French Industrial Exhibition of 1844

The French Industrial Exhibition of 1844 was the tenth of a series of eleven French national industrial exhibitions held to promote the improvement of progressive agriculture and technology, which originated in 1798. It took place in a temporary structure in the Fields Elysium. This tenth Paris exhibition immediately spawned imitators, including the Great Exhibition of London in 1851, which was open to international exhibitors from around the world and eclipsed the successful French exhibition. The building of the Exhibition of 1849

Other European exhibitions soon followed: Bern and Madrid in 1845; Brussels with an industrial exhibition drawn up in 1847; Bordeaux in 1847; St. Petersburg in 1848; and Lisbon in 1849. The exhibition returned to Paris in 1849, called the Second Republic Exhibition or Exposition Nationale des produits de l'industrie agricole et manufacturière, with 5494 exhibitors and was replaced in 1855 by an international exhibition.

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