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TOUREIFFEL.PARIS View from the Eiffel Tower of the Seine River and Palais de Chaillot, a building in the Trocadéro area of Paris, site of the International Exposition of 1937.

TOUREIFFEL.PARIS View from the Eiffel Tower of the Seine River and Palais de Chaillot, a building in the Trocadéro area of Paris, site of the International Exposition of 1937.

August 30, 2020

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HISTORY CORNER: Gustave Eiffel: Thinking BIG
August 30, 2020 1 a.m.

HISTORY CORNER: Gustave Eiffel: Thinking BIG

French architect and civil engineer created the Eiffel Tower and helped build the Statue of Liberty

“There is an attraction, a special charm in the colossal to which ordinary theories of art do not apply,” said Alexandre Gustave Eiffel. “Can one think that because we are engineers, beauty does not preoccupy us or that we do not try to build beautiful, as well as solid and long-lasting structures?”