The rooms of this building contained the products of the industrial arts of Indo-China. du Houx de Brossard, architect) was the representation of the Palace of Coloa (Tonkin). ![]() One, the progress made since the conquest in the reconnaissance of our Indo-Chinese empire (itinerary of the explorers), the other, the distribution, over the whole territory, of the economic products, the communication routes, etc.Ģ° The Palace of Arts (M. Paul Merwart, painter of the Colonies, showed in perspective the four largest cities of Indo-China: Saigon, Hanoi, Hué and Pnôm-Penh, as well as two large original wall maps representing, On the bare wall surfaces were the plans of the monuments being completed. It was also in this pagoda that the models of the great iron bridges and works of art of Indo-China ordered in France by the Governor General were placed. Varieties of rice, paddy (husked rice), rice alcohol, teas, coffees, cinnamon, pepper, star anise, gums, benzoin, cocoa, wax, honey, sugar cane, indigo, dye wood, rattan and bamboo objects, silk, crepons, cotton, peanut oils, ramie, lacquers, terracotta, pottery, tobacco, mats, weapons, copper, tin, musical instruments, dolls, cars, photographs, etc. Here is an enumeration of the main products and objects that appeared there: Tonkin and Annam, Cochinchina as well as Laos, Cambodia and the Chinese territory of Kouang-Tchéou-Ouan, recently acquired by France, and which was placed under the authority of the Governor General of Indo-China in January 1900. (Messrs Maréchal and Decron, architects), a reproduction of the great pagoda of Cholon (Cochinchina), intended to receive the agricultural and industrial products of the whole of Indo-China, i.e. This exhibition included five main buildings or groups of buildings, Tonkinese, Cambodian and Laotian houses, plus an annexed building intended to house the natives outside the Exhibition enclosure, as required by the General Commissariat. There was only an Indo-Chinese exhibition, divided by type of product or object, in palaces or pavilions which were the faithful representation of the most curious specimens of Far Eastern architecture, found in the different provinces which together form the colony of Indo-China today. There was only one exhibition, the one of the French colonial exhibition. Doumer, there was no exhibition or special buildings from Cochinchina, Cambodia, Tonkin, etc. Saint-Germain, senator, deputy director of the colonial exhibition, showed a very appreciated activity and taste. Jules Charles-Roux, delegate of the Ministries of Foreign Affairs and Colonies, and of Mr. This commission, which was placed under the high direction of Mr. du Houx de Brossard, Alexandre Marcel, Decron, Maréchal, architects, Louis Dumoulin, Paul Merwart, painters of the Navy and the Colonies, Lesuire, honorary resident, Blanchet, director of the Cochinchina river messengers, Denis Guinaut and Henri Armand, secretaries of the Indo-Chinese exhibition. ![]() ![]() Paul Doumer was assisted in the execution of this beautiful plan by his delegates, Messrs Pierre Nicolas, commissioner, and Jean Suricaud, deputy commissioner, helped by a commission composed of distinguished architects such as Messrs. The general idea that the governor had had was to give exactly the feeling of the administrative, economic and moral unity of our great Asian territory which owes its definitive form to him today. Paul Doumer, whose administration is so fruitful, so full of happy results for the colony to which he devotes, without counting the cost, all his intelligence, all his energy, all his incredible working power. It was almost a small Indo-Chinese city which had been built at Trocadero, on the inspiration of the Governor General, Mr. ![]() du Houx de Brossard, Alexandre Marcel, Decron, Maréchal
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