Part 1 of 5 · freeIntroduction
On March 31, 1889, Gustave Eiffel climbed to the top of his tower and raised the French flag. At 300 meters, it was the tallest structure ever built by human hands. It had taken a little over two years, about 18,000 iron parts and 2.5 million rivets.
Today it is the symbol of France. But in 1887, when work began on the Champ de Mars, part of Parisian high society cried scandal. Writers, painters and architects demanded that the project be abandoned. How did the most hated monument of its day become the most loved?
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- 2A tower built to last twenty years
- 3The artists' anger
- 4Saved by science and radio
- 5Paris can no longer be imagined without it
Open-book quiz8 questions whose answers are in the text.
Glossary6 terms explained in a tap.
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