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It is also notable that the meeting took place in Paris, after the 1855 Exposition Universelle [2] The Congress of Paris worked out the final terms from 25 February to 30 March 1856, the Treaty of Paris was signed on 30 March 1856 with Russia on one side and France, Great Britain, Turkey and Piedmont-Sardinia on the other. [1] at the Quai d ...
Esztergom Basilica, Hungary The Parliament House, Melbourne, Australia. February – State Library of Victoria in Melbourne, Australia, designed by Joseph Reed [1] May 15 – Rumeli Feneri, Istanbul, Turkey [2]
The Congress of Paris (French: Le Congrès de Paris) is an 1856 history painting by the French artist Édouard Dubufe. [1] It depicts the international diplomats who assembled for the Congress of Paris that ended the Crimean War. It was exhibited at the Paris Salon of 1857. [2] Today it is on display in the Palace of Versailles. [3]
The Louvre Saint-Honoré building is a historic structure in Paris, occupying an entire urban block between the rue de Rivoli (across the Louvre Palace), the place du Palais-Royal, the rue Saint-Honoré, and the rue de Marengo [], with a total floor surface of 47,000 square meters.
A French engineer living in New York, Loubat, brought the idea to Paris and opened the first tramway line in Paris, between the Place de la Concorde and the Barrière de Passy in November 1853. He extended the line, known as the Chemin de fer américain ("American rail line"), all the way across Paris from Boulogne to Vincennes in 1856.
16 March - Napoléon Eugène, Prince Imperial, only child of Emperor Napoleon III of France and his Empress consort Eugénie de Montijo (died 1879) 24 April - Philippe Pétain, Marshal of France, later Chief of State of Vichy France (died 1951) 25 May - Louis Franchet d'Espérey, general during World War I (died 1942)
The Treaty of Paris of 1856, signed on 30 March 1856 at the Congress of Paris, brought an end to the Crimean War (1853-1856) between the Russian Empire and an alliance of the Ottoman Empire, the United Kingdom, the Second French Empire and the Kingdom of Sardinia. [1] [2] The treaty diminished Russian influence in the region.
Its full official title was the Exposition Universelle des produits de l'Agriculture, de l'Industrie et des Beaux-Arts de Paris 1855. [1] It was the first of ten major expositions held in the city between 1855 and 1937.