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| Keywords: Entrée principale du palais, 1878 Paris World Fair.jpg Entrance gate of the Palais du Champ-de-Mars at the 1878 Paris World Fair The Palais was facing the Trocadéro and was located on the site where the Eiffel Tower is now standing The phrase fluctuat nec mergitur meaning it is tossed by the waves but it does not sink written above the image is the motto of the city of Paris which was housing the World Fair The motto was particularly adapted to the 1878 political situation since France had been through many civil upheavals and wars and the Third Republic was a very new regime 1878 engraving 27 5 x 21 5 cm Institution Brown University Library object history exhibition history credit line accession number 1254164564884342 PD-old-100 Lithographs of Paris Engravings of buildings in Paris Images of Paris from the Brown University Library Exposition Universelle 1878 Fluctuat nec mergitur | ||||
