2Initially, it was a 300-meter failure

Almost as soon as construction began on the tower, an influential cabal of Parisian artists and architects went atomic with their outrage.

Perhaps the most repeated, and probably most apocryphal, story of tower hate is that the writer Guy de Maupassant frequently ate lunch in it because it was the only place in Paris where you couldn’t see the tower.

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