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Musee D'Orsay by Miles Whittingham

This is the famous clock inside the Musee D'Orsay museum in Paris, France. This beautiful ornate clock dates back to the days when the museum was a former train station (Gare D'Orsay).

This clock was built in 1900 when the train station first began to receive passengers. Gare D'Orsay, however, was no normal train station. Since it was in the centre of Paris just across the Seine River from the Louvre and just down the street from the National Assembly, no simple train building would do.

The Gare D'Orsay was built with an impressive stone facade. It was meant to show that Paris was a cosmopolitan city (it was built in time for the Exposition Universalle or world's fair of 1900). Gare D'Orsay was the first electrified train station in the world. It was also the first train station to have elevators to help passengers get to their trains.

The centrepiece of the new train station was this massive clock, whic...

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