The Eiffel Tower Wasn't a Big Hit When It Debuted
Telegraph - Herald (Dubuque) › March 27, 2011
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Were he alive, French architect Gustave Eiffel would have sympathized with Maya Lin.
"Design a monument to a controversial historic period," he might have told the young architect of the Vietnam Memorial, "and be prepared for criticism from every quarter."See the full content of this document
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The Eiffel Tower Wasn't a Big Hit When It Debuted
Eiffel would know. When, in the late 1880s, the French government decided to honor the centennial of the French Revolution (1789...
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