“Gustave Eiffel never called the Eiffel Tower ‘the ... there is an information desk, a casual buffet-style eatery, and ...

Gustave Eiffel's civil engineering firm used a whopping 7,300 tons of iron and 2.5 million rivets — but it was more than worth the effort. The tower received more than two million visitors at ...

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 ...