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The Paris World Exposition 1937
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Year: | 1937 | | City: | Paris | | Country: | France | | Duration: | 25th May - 25th November 1937
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Facts and Figures
Official Name Exposition internationale des arts et techniques dans la vie moderne
Theme Art and technology as applied in modern life
Duration 25 May - 25 November 1937 (185 days)
Location Paris city centre: Champs de Mars, in front of the Trocadero, to the banks of the Seine
Area: 105 hectares of which 9.5 hectares occupied by buildings housing France and the guest countries
Symbol: Palais de Chaillot with Peace Column designed by Jacques Carlu, Louis-Hippolyte Boileau, Léon Azéma
Organisation Upper Exposition Council: 42 members, president: Minister of Trade and Industry
Control Commission:
President: Joseph Caillaus
Executive Committee
Vice-president: Julien Durand
Commissioner General: Edmond Labbé, director general of technology education
General Secretary: Charles Ettori, council of state reporter
Architects: Chief architect Charles Letrosne (to Nov. 1935), then Jacques Gréber, as well as Robert Martzloff for park and garden architecture
Finance Director: Henri Pignerol, Paris council finance director
Participating countries: 46
Exhibitors: 11,000
Visitors: 31,040,955
Entrance fee: 6 Francs
Costs: Official figures as at 21 December 1940:
Income: 1,661,024,345 Francs
Expenses: 1,443,288,391 Francs
Profit: 217,735,953 Francs
Financing:
State subsidies: 1,265,897,641 Francs;
Paris council subsidy: 351,000,000 Francs
National Lottery profits of up to 295,000,000 Francs awarded for 3 years to the Paris council
Classification: 114 classes and 14 Groups
Category: Category 2 World Exposition
Events: Including 602 congresses during the Exposition
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