While the Eiffel Tower is named for him, it was really Maurice Koechlin and Emile Nouguier, two engineers who worked for his company, who designed the structure. They also commissioned French ...
The Eiffel Tower is famous around the world, a symbol not just of Paris and France but of style, sophistication and romance as well. But did you know it was only meant to stand for 20 years before ...
The date of their strike was not picked at random: 27 December is the centenary of the death of the tower's creator, Gustave Eiffel. A visionary French engineer and entrepreneur, Eiffel died on ...
The Eiffel Tower, one of Paris' iconic landmarks, has six million tourists a year French police have seized 20 tonnes of miniature Eiffel Towers in an operation to dismantle an extensive network ...