Paris Colonial exhibition 1907 in France

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Paris Colonial exhibition 1907

Local name	Exposition Coloniale 1907
Type	menagerie
Founded	1907
Opened for public	1907
Closed down	1907
Address	Bois de Vincennes
Place	Paris
Country	France
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Directors	1907-1907: Gustav Hagenbeck

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Paris Colonial exhibition 1907, located at Bois de Vincennes, in Paris, France , was founded in 1907, opened for public in 1907. Paris Colonial exhibition 1907 closed down in 1907.

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Created in 1899 to test and redistribute plants from the country’s territories abroad, the Jardin d’Agronomie Tropicale was the site of a Colonial Fair in 1907 which used displays of plants and buildings to provide a sense of the French colonies for well-to-do Parisian visitors. Elephants and camels were brought in and, extraordinarily, so were des indigènes – people literally shipped in from the colonies to live in huts and tents in the garden and be gawped at by visitors. Adam showed us some wonderful 1907 photographs of the Fair’s buildings, with elephants careering down a specially created water slide, and the indigènes wrapped in blankets against the Northern European chill, staring stoically at the camera.

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Koehl, Dan (2025). Paris Colonial exhibition 1907, Elephant Encyclopedia. Available online at https://www.elephant.se/location2.php?location_id=3896. (archived at the Wayback machine)

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