The Protest in Paris

The Machine Age · 1889

The Protest in Paris

Forty-seven artists sign a letter begging Paris to tear the tower down

On the fourteenth of February, 1887, the newspaper Le Temps printed a letter on its front page that called the half-built iron thing rising by the Seine a useless and monstrous tower, and demanded it come down before it shamed…

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