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1909-1951: Air show
In 1909, Louis Blériot in his Blériot XI monoplane was the first to successfully fly across the English Channel.
In the same year, the aircraft starred in the Nave of the Grand Palais at the inauguration of the first air show, the Exposition internationale de locomotion aérienne. The presence of so many hot-air balloons, aeroplanes, and airships in the Nave drew comparisons with a birdcage. Later renamed the Salon de l’aviation, the show grew each year in popularity.
Aircraft entering the Grand Palais by the Procustes door, International Air Show, November 1930.
© L’Illustration
The Air Show in the Grand Palais. Paris, October 1910.
© Jacques Boyer / Roger-Viollet
©Chaillot fond Granet
Poster of the first Air show at the Grand Palais in 1909.
© L’Illustration
1928. 11th Air Show (at the time still called the Exposition de locomotion aérienne) in the Grand Palais.
© CNAM/DAF/Cité de l’architecture et du patrimoine/Twentieth century architecture archives, photo Chevojon
Interior view of the aeronautic pavillion at the Grand Palais, 1937 International Exhibition, Paris.
© L’Illustration
