FRENCH PAVILION
EXHIBIT AT NEW YORK FAIR As war-exhausted France bowed to German terms, the French pavilion at the New York World’s Fair was presenting a display of the quaint countryside and simple home life of an unravaged provincial France, even to sharing with Fair visitors their handicrafts and regional arts. Through motion picture films visitors could enter into the picturesque lives of the fisher-folk of Brittany, the mountaineers of the Alpine regions and the inhabitants of the Riviera.* Actual interiors transported from France permitted visitors to visit a dim cloister built in the Middle Ages and sections of provincial cottages. Tapestries and pictures showed aged wonders of Carcassonne, Middle Age fortified city, and other relics of France’s provincial past. A newly-completed war exhibit, by means of banners, insignia, pictures and films, showed the iu&tory of France’s army and navy.
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Waikato Times, Volume 127, Issue 21231, 30 September 1940, Page 8
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140FRENCH PAVILION Waikato Times, Volume 127, Issue 21231, 30 September 1940, Page 8
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