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Description: Electric Paris - On exhibit at the Bruce Museum, Greenwich, CT - May 14, 2016 - September 4, 2016 - brucemuseum.orgnnParis had been known as the City of Light long before the widespread use of gaslight and electricity.The name arose during the Enlightenment, when philosophers made Paris a center of ideas and of metaphorical illumination.By the mid-nineteenth century, the epithet became associated with the city’s adoption of artificial lighting: in the 1840s and 1850s, gas lamps were first
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