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Originally Posted by Tinordi
Parisians hated the Eiffel tower when it first went up. Meh.
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On the contrary, the public in general liked it. It was primarily the French art community who were against it.
(In part probably they were miffed because of the way it got built. The selection for the center piece of the 1889 World Fair was technically open for suggestions, but with the clause that it had to be a 300m four-sided metal tower
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