When the Eiffel Tower was built, as the centerpiece of Paris’ 1889 Universal Exposition, not everyone loved it. The writer Guy de Maupassant mocked it as a “high and skinny pyramid of iron ladders.”
A look at Gustav Eiffel, and his tower’s importance and stature in Paris
When the Eiffel Tower was built, as the centerpiece of Paris’ 1889 Universal Exposition, not everyone loved it. The writer Guy de Maupassant mocked it as a “high and skinny pyramid of iron ladders.”
A look at Gustav Eiffel, and his tower’s importance and stature in Paris
