Gustave Eiffel
Eiffel family will fight Olympic rings staying on Paris tower
The descendants of the Eiffel Tower's designer, Gustave Eiffel, are prepared to fight against plans to leave the Olympic rings on the tower, as proposed by the mayor of Paris.
Eiffel Tower closed as staff go on strike
The Eiffel Tower, one of the world's top tourist attractions, was closed on Dec. 27 after staff went on strike, the landmark's operator said.
The one-day stoppage on the 100th anniversary of the death of engineer Gustave Eiffel, who built the tower, was to protest against "the current way it is managed," the hard-left CGT union said in a statement.
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Stephen Fry on Parthenon Marbles return to Greece: It would like the Big Ben or the Stonehenge were missing
He said it would be like the Nazi occupation forces had taken the Eiffel Tower
Rare dinosaur skeleton sells for two million euros
The skeleton of an extremely rare form of dinosaur sold for more than two million euros ($2.3 million) at the Eiffel Tower in Paris on June 4.
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