Chapter Five“It is really tremendously exciting!” Yola exclaimed.
Her eyes were sparkling and her lips smiling as she moved from exhibit to exhibit in the International Exhibition.
The Marquis had driven her there in his open chaise and she was thrilled from the moment they stepped into the enormous glass and iron building in the Champ de Mars on the Left Bank of the Seine.
There were fairgrounds and an Imperial Pavilion, which was an Oriental concept carried out with striped awnings and a multitude of golden eagles.
But the majority of the exhibits could be found in the Palais de l’Industrie and the different National Pavilions.
England was presenting a Bible Society kiosk, a Protestant Church, a model farm and machines for agriculture.
The Marquis laughed at it.
“Nothing could sho
