Exhibition: Un train pour le Yunnan
With this exhibition entitled “Un train pour le Yunnan” (“A train to Yunnan”), the musée Guimet depicts the journey of two Frenchmen through Asia. Auguste François, consul of France in China, and Georges-Auguste Marbotte, a travelling accountant, joined in the 19th century to build a railway in Yunnan. Discover this gigantic construction site, its evolution and the life around this important historical landmark of this South-West province of China.
“Un train pour le Yunnan: Les tribulations de deux Français en Chine” exhibition, from January 21st to April 6th 2015.
Open every day, except on Tuesday, from 10am to 6pm.
Full rate: €9.50 / Reduced rate: €7.
Railway
Georges-Auguste Marbotte
The two openings from one side to the other of the inverted V bridge at kilometre 111, 1903-1906.
This bridge spans a 102-metre-deep gorge above an affluent of the Nanxi River. G-A. Marbotte couldn’t stay until the end of the works because he had to go back to France in May 1908, before the bridge inauguration in 1910.
Musée national des Arts asiatiques – Musée Guimet (in French)
6, place d’Iéna
75016 Paris
France
Tel: +33 (0)1 56 52 53 00
Metro: Iéna (line 9) or Pont de l’Alma (RER C).
- February 04, 2015
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