On This Day
Source
Bibliothèque nationale de France
The Eiffel Tower opened, 1889
Parisian intellectuals called it "a truly tragic street lamp."
When the Eiffel Tower opened to the public on 31 March 1889, a petition signed by Guy de Maupassant, Charles Gounod and 300 other artists denounced it as a "useless and monstrous" iron chimney. Maupassant reportedly ate lunch in its restaurant daily — the only place in Paris, he said, where he could not see it.
Editor's Note
A small note from the MAGAZINIX desk: worth returning to.
