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More than 5 million people attended the exhibition (a world record at the time), yet it still failed to turn a profit, costing the French government 2,000,000 Franc s. The fair included more than 76,000 exhibitors and covered 1.12 square kilometres of Paris. The Exposition Universelle was where Motion Pictures were first unveiled and where the Escalator debuted. The exhibition lasted from 14 April until 10 November 1900 . A special committee, led by Gustave Eiffel , awarded a gold medal to Lavr Proskuryakov 's project for the Yenisei Bridge In Krasnoyarsk . A number of Paris' most noted structures were built for the Exposition including the Gare De Lyon , the Gare D'Orsay (now the Musée D'Orsay ), the Pont Alexandre III , the Grand Palais , La Ruche , and the Petit Palais . A sideshow at the Exposition was the Second Olympic Games , which were spread over five months. So unnoted were these games that many athletes died unaware that they had been Olympians. The games also marked the first participation by female athletes and, in such sports as tennis, football (soccer), polo, rowing and tug of war, teams were multinational. A Human Zoo was present at the exposition. |
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