The true history of the Eiffel Tower

2024-04-01T14:12:14.834Z

Highlights: The true history of the Eiffel Tower. Why is it synonymous with progress and modernity? How did 19th century Parisians perceive this tower, the tallest ever built? To talk about it, Stéphane Bern receives Savin Yeatman-Eiffel, screenwriter and director (“Eiffle, the war of the towers” ​​broadcast on Arte in 2023) Sté phile: “The truth behind the symbol of Paris’s most famous landmark”

Stéphane Bern recounts, while all eyes are more than ever on it, a monument completed just 135 years ago, which has become the symbol of Paris and France. A monument imagined for the Universal Exhibition of 1889 which might not have been installed over time. Or the true history of the Eiffel Tower... In what context was the construction of the Eiffel Tower decided? Why is it synonymous with progress and modernity? How did 19th century Parisians perceive this tower, the tallest ever built? To talk about it, Stéphane Bern receives Savin Yeatman-Eiffel, screenwriter and director (“Eiffel, the war of the towers” ​​broadcast on Arte in 2023), vice-president of the association of descendants of Gustave Eiffel, and great-great- great-grandson of Gustave Eiffel.