La Tour Eiffel : $b Manifeste contre la construction et réponse de M. Eiffel
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La Tour Eiffel by Gustave Eiffel is a historical pamphlet written in the late 19th century. It records a high-profile cultural controversy: a public manifesto by leading artists and writers denouncing the planned Eiffel Tower, paired with the engineer’s detailed rebuttal defending its conception, aesthetics, usefulness, and symbolic value.
The text opens with a protest letter to Adolphe Alphand, asserting that the proposed iron tower is useless and monstrous, a factory chimney set to disfigure Paris and dwarf its revered monuments; the signatories urge Alphand to intervene and, failing that, to at least bear witness to an honorable dissent. A journalist then summarizes an interview in which the engineer answers point by point: he notes the protest’s lateness given signed contracts and construction already underway, outlines the financial and concession arrangements, and argues that aesthetic judgment is premature before the work exists. He contends that structural necessity—especially
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