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Orsay Museum

Americans in France

2008-5-18 10:26am

Prior to l'Exposition de 1900 (Paris World's Fair, 1900), the trains of the Orleans Railroad stopped at Gare Austerlitz, on the east side of Paris. The railroad company sought permission to build a new station on the Left Bank of the River Seine, a block or two away, and across the river from the Louvre.