Filipino People and Exposition Grounds

Rizal
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------------------------------------------------- "RIZAL'S SECOND
SOJOURN(pag babakasyon) IN PARIS AND THE
UNIVERSAL EXPOSITION(paglalahad) OF 1889" Paris in the
spring of 1889 was bursting with gaiety(joy) and excitement
because of the universal exposition. Thousands of visitors from
all corner of the world crowded every hotel, inn, and boarding
house .every -where in the metropolis the hotel rate in London ,
was caught in the whirl of gay Parisian life .despite the social
parties and the glittering light of the city , he continued his
fruitful artistic , literary , and patriotic labor(makabayang pag
gawa), he published his annotated(comment) edition of
Morgam’s success; founded three Filipino societies, the kidlat
club,…show more content…
Like any ordinary Filipino tourist in a foreign land Rizal was
fascinated(nabighani) by the universal Exposition of Parish
which opened on May 6, 1889. The greatest attraction of this
exposition was the Eiffel Tower, 984 feet high, which was built
by Alexander Eiffel, celebrated French engineer. Rizal and his
friends attended the opening ceremonies and saw the cutting of
the ribbon by President Sadi Carnotof the Third French Republic.
Paris was jammed with thousands of tourist coming from all parts
of the world. Daily the Exposition drew a vast crowd of 200, 000
persons or more. One of the features of the Exposition was the
international art competition, in which Felix R. Hidalgo, Juan
Luna, Felix Pardo de Tavera, and Rizal participated. Hidalgo’s
painting was awarded second prize, the paintings of Juan Luna
and F. Pardo de Tavera each obtained the third prize. While
Rizal’s entry (a bust which he modelled got no prize. This bust
was quite good to qualify for the exhibition, but not good enough
to win an international prize.