Pour un franc cinquante centimes
Et tout le monde donne ou donnera
Dans le pano, pano, panorama.”
(Paris more than any place
Rejoices in a lawful success.
A clever man will show it to you
For one franc fifty centimes.
And everybody goes or is going
To the pano, pano, panorama.)
This business venture proved very successful but Fulton was so busy with greater affairs that he could not long give his personal attention to its supervision. In December of that year he sold the patent rights to an American who carried on the business for several years. Other scenes replaced the original “Moscow,” possibly Fulton painted them; at any rate, he kept an interest in the business, and in 1801 took out a second patent for improvements in panoramas.