Officially named the Exposition Universelle des produits de l'Agriculture, de l'Industrie et des Beaux-Arts de Paris 1855, it was the first of several expositions held in Paris. Paris would later hold expositions in 1867, 1878, 1889, 1900, and 1937.

The Palais de l'Industrie

LINKS:
The Paris Exhibitions
Exposition Universelle - from Answers.com
1855: Brave new Global Capital - from Carnegie Mellon University
Making the List: How the most important rankings in wine became irrelevant - from Slate
A couple of images - from the University of Maryland Libraries