French Industrial Exposition of 1844

The French Industrial Exposition of 1844 (French: Exposition des produits de l'industrie française en 1844), held in a temporary structure on the Champs-Élysées in Paris, was the tenth in a series of eleven French national industrial expositions held since 1798 to encourage improvements in progressive agriculture and in technology.

Entrants had to fill out a form that gave information about their business including its nature, number of employees, materials used, export and domestic earning and so on.

The king of France, Louis Philippe I, opened the exposition and toured all the exhibits.

Hector Berlioz composed and conducted the Hymne à la France, a great symphonic and choral work performed during the opening.

[2] Legion of Honour awards were:[4] Notable and unusual Others Though it was the tenth Paris exposition, it began to spawn imitators elsewhere in the world, including the 1851 Great Exhibition in London, which was open to international exhibitors from the entire world and outshone the highly successful French exhibition.