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The Palais du Trocadéro in the 16th Arrondissement ( Paris) was a historicist Exhibition Palace, which was built for the Paris World Exposition in 1878.

The eclectic exhibition building of the architect Gabriel Davioud and Jules Bourdais was designed in a neo-Byzantine style - neomaurischen. It was built for the World Exhibition Paris in 1937 largely removed and replaced by the Palais de Chaillot. From 1882 to 1937 it housed on a proposal by Eugène Viollet -le- Duc, the Musée de la sculpture comparée that issued the remains of the Musée des Monuments français Alexandre Lenoir. In addition, there was an ethnographic museum, arose from the later, the Musée de l' Homme. The gardens of the Trocadéro were designed by Jean -Charles Alphand. From 1880, the building also contained a public observatory, founded by Léon Jaubert. The large banquet hall of the Trocadero with a capacity of 5,000 people was famous for his concert organ. This was first transferred to the successor building. Today it serves as an organ of the Auditorium Maurice Ravel in Lyon. The statue jewelry was distributed, he finds himself today at the Musée d' Orsay, at the Parc de Sceaux at Parc Georges Brassens and Nimes.