Hi, Kelly. How's it going? Good. Good. Okay, so today I have a story for you that takes place in Paris, and it centers around one of the lesser-known tourist destinations there.

In Paris. Are you a Paris person? Have you been to Paris?

I have been to Paris, but it has been a really, really long time. I haven't been to Paris since like the 90s. I went as like a backpacker,

did those homestay things that you did back then. I remember I stayed with a blind programmer

and a beautiful neighborhood of Paris. Anyway, the point is, I need to get back to Paris.

Yeah.

I went for three days, and, you know, I saw, like, the Louvre and everything.

But the thing that sticks out for me is a falafel sandwich that I had there.

Oh, nice.

But there's this one lesser-known landmark that I wanted to talk about.

And it had one of its first public unveilings in 1867. And in

1867, Paris was hosting the World's Fair. You know, the point of World's Fair is to showcase the

big technologies that are happening. So, of course, different countries come and they would set up

exhibits and want to showboat about how modern they have become, right? And at the time, Napoleon III was the emperor of France,

and he was the nephew of the short Napoleon. Right. There were so many Napoleons. It's really

hard to keep track. Yeah. How he came to power was very complicated, but one of the big items on his

agenda was to modernize

in industrialize France. So this World Fair was the perfect way to promote this idea. The city

built a lighthouse downtown. In the exhibit hall, France was flaunting their new Suez Canal

project that would open two years later. And you know, you had, of course, your typical 50-ton

cannons, guns, submarines, all the military hardware. But then there was this one stranger exhibit

and it required visitors to take a small boat underground. And what it was doing, it was taking

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