![]() For the French it’s the symbol of Paris for many foreigners, it evokes the entire country.īut there would be no iron lady without the iron magician that created her. One hundred and twenty years later, the iron lady is the most visited paying monument in the world: some seven million people flock to marvel at her iron curves every year. Anything dignified and artistic required stone. ![]() ![]() Iron was a vulgar metal, used only for commercial concerns like shops or railways. © RMN (Musée d’Orsay) / © Jean SchormansWhen the Eiffel Tower opened to the public in May 1889 (as part of the World’s Fair celebrating the 100 th anniversary of the French Revolution), it was considered an eyesore.įrench writer Guy de Maupassant was one of several in the Paris art world to sign the Artists’ Petition against the “useless and monstrous Eiffel Tower”, a blot on the Paris landscape. ![]()
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