Exibitions of france’s industry products - predecessors of world exhibitions
The article examines the traditions and experience of exhibitions of France’s industry in 1798- 1849 as an ideological tool for uniting the nation, forming a sense of national pride in the country progress and its important place in the international arena. Industrial exhibitions in Paris were a kind of platform for demonstrating the military and economic superiority of France among the world’s leading powers. In the future, the ideological content of French industrial expositions will become the basis of world exhibitions.The article opens a series of publications, where the contribution of representatives of the Russian Imperial family to the implementation of world exhibition projects of the mid-19th - early 20th centuries is considered as an object of research.