BIG BUSINESS

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 19826, 28 April 1927, Page 3

BIG BUSINESS

THE PARIS BOURSE CEKEBKATTNG ITS FIRST CENTENNIAL. Paris has celebrated the 100th anniversary of the Bourse, that monumental structure begun in 1800, but not finished until 1826. It was designed and planned by Brougniart and was completed by Comte Chabrol, the Prefect of the Seine. Above all, the work was that of Napoleon, who said of the Bourse in December, 1806: “I intend this building to be worthy of the capital and of the vast volume of business that one day will be transacted there.” Napoleon was in Posen at the time, and this remark furnishes another example of the clo«e attention he paid to home affairs, even when he was in far distant lands, says the Now Tork Times. Thus it was at Moscow that he signed the famous decree relating to the Comedie Francaise and at Vilna that he annulled a decision of the Town Council of Sarthe, which had taken from the Solegme Abbey a number of ste-tues, designing to place them in the museum at Le Mans. However prone he was to do every thing on a grandiose scale, Napole’on on this occasion underrated the needed proportions of the Bourse; for the voli ume of busin ep,transacted there as long ago as 1900 far exceeded Iho capacity of the building and made necessary the erection of two spacious wings. The Stock Brokers’ Association will mark the centenary of the famous building by bestowing upon each of its members a commemorative mCdaL