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We are in Mâcon, near Lyons, in the year XIII of the French revolutionary calendar (it lists more often today as the year 1804-1805). An entrepreneur of that city, Joseph Dufour, invented the "panoramique". The following year, his success led him to settle in Paris. The high bourgeoisie, whose social status is reinforced since the Revolution of 1789, is looking for new emotions and for a new env…