Detail des Ceremonies qui se feront les cinq jours complementaires et le premier vendemiaire

[EXHIBITION CEREMONIES]. Detail des Cérémonies qui se feront les cinq jours complémentaires et le premier vendémiaire, dans lesqueuelles il y aura une Foire au Champ-des-Mars où les objets les plus précieux de nos Manufactures. y seront deposes, Joute sur l'eau, Lutte de différens Jeux, Masses de feu sur les Tours, les Dômes et les Thélégraphes; Explosion de six-cents Fusées Volantes; enlèvement d'un Ballon et de plusieurs Physiciens qui incendieront un bâtis représentant un Vaisseau de guerre Anglais, Courses à cheval, Courses en chars, Danses et Illuminations. [caption-title]. 8vo, pp. 8, disbound. [Paris: De l'Imprimerie de Gelé, 1798].

First Edition. Unrecorded. There are similar pamphlets celebrating this public national industrial exhibition, but this one seems to be unknown. Rare catalogues of what was exhibited exist, but unlike the others, this pamphlet records the festivities themselves. Provides details of the five-day fête, or trade fair, featuring jousting, fireworks, 600 rockets, a balloon ascension, an English war vessel, foot races, chariot races, dances and illuminations. "If it is true that 'of all events in recent history, only wars have had more dramatic influence than World expositions upon the expression of civilisation', then the first industrial exposition, held in Paris in 1798, deserves a high place of honor in the annals of human culture. This exposition is the forerunner of the hundreds of national industrial expositions and the ninety-plus international expositions that have been staged all over the world, from 1851 down to the present. Born of a confluence of tradition and revolution, the exposition publique des produits de l'industrie français set in motion one of the great rituals of Progress—the belief in applied technology for the improvement of the quality of life—that distinguishes Western civilization."-Arthur Chandler, L'Exposition publique des produits de l'industrie français Paris 1798 (2014), expanded and revised version reproduced from World's Fair magazine, Vol. X, Number 1, 1990. Planned by the Marquis d'Avèze, and approved by M. François de Neufchateau, the Minister of the Interior. "The Directory staged a 'Fête…for the people. Chariots bearing Napoleonic loot, the bronze gilt horses from San Marco in Venice, the Dying Gladiator, the Apollo Belvedere, …Homer on a tripod, Raphael's Transfiguration and other masterpieces were paraded through the streets of Paris with Swiss bears, African lions…more chariots carried huge stalks of bananas and other 'foreign vegetation'…"-Jan Piggott, Palace of the People (2004), p. 2. At the end are several revolutionary songs. Not in Martin & Waller, NUC, OCLC, Brunet, Mauric Tourneux, Bibliographie de l'histoire de Paris pendant la Révolution française (1890), etc. For the previously published songs see, Constant Pierre, Les Hymnes et chansons de la Révolution (1904), #'s 874, 874*, 878, 2045. 83396