Eiffel Tower

1/6/2022

Quoted in Juan Villoro’s Horizontal Vertigo.

"[Guy de Maupassant] was one of the many intellectuals who opposed the building of that fantasy in iron [the Eiffel Tower]. When what is currently the symbol of Paris was completed, a friend was surprised to find Maupassant in the restaurant on top of the building. How was it possible that a declared enemy of the tower was there? Maupassant's response was irrefutable: "It's the only place where you can't see the Eiffel Tower."

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5/9/2024 01:27:14 pm

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