Keywords: La salle des fêtes, dans le Palais du Trocadéro.jpg Central rotunda in the Trocadéro Palace The Trocadéro had been designed specifically for the 1878 fair by the architects Davioud and Bourdais The building had three parts the monumental central rotunda shown here in the image served as a reception and concert hall which could contain about 5000 people Two galleries on each side went from the rotunda to the outside of the building and were inspired by St Peter's Piazza in Rome The Palais was eventually damaged by a fire in 1935 and does not exist anymore today 1879 engraving 22 6 x 31 cm Institution Brown University Library object history exhibition history credit line Published in Simon de Vandière L'Exposition universelle de 1878 illustrée Paris Calmann Lévy 1879 accession number 1254181073759456 PD-old Images of Paris from the Brown University Library L'Exposition universelle de 1878 illustrée Exposition Universelle 1878 Salle des Fetes Engravings of Paris Palais du Trocadéro |