
Fire in the Bazar de la Charite in Paris on May 4, 1897

by Clu
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Fire in the Bazar de la Charite in Paris on May 4, 1897
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Clu
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The fire occurred in the afternoon of May 4, 1897 in an extra built for the bazaar wooden building on the Rue Jean-Goujon near the Champs Élysées in Paris. The bazaar had been opened the day before and should have been open until the 6th of May. At the event, this was a charity of Paris High Society, which has been held annually since 1884: famous arts, decorations, decorative articles, jewelry and books to collect money for charity. Responsible for the fire was a cinematograph of the Brothers Lumière. However, the cinematograph did not work with electricity, but used a calcification with ether. When the assistant of the film introducer lighted a match, the Ether vapor and the demonstration room began at 16.15 pm to burn. That the fire spread so fast and burned down the entire building in almost fifteen minutes, had several reasons: wooden buildings, cardboard and canvas. It happened a mass panic and there were too few outputs: 126 people died. Sophie, the sister of the Austrian Empress Sisi died in the flames. She was on May 4, 1897 on the Bazar de la Charité and her presence attracted many visitors to the bazaar. When the bazaar fingered, Sophie collected just donate. One tried to evacuate her first, but she insisted that the women and girls on her stand were brought outside first, the reason for her death. Illustration from 19th century.
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February 14th, 2025
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