This episode of The Good Life France podcast is a couple of world report breaker. An uncommon, distinctive magnificence. A towering icon that’s as arduous as iron… I’m in fact speaking in regards to the Eiffel Tower in Paris.
The Eiffel Tower in a Podcast
The Eiffel Tower isn’t only a image of Paris, it’s a image of France. However this wasn’t speculated to occur. The Tower shouldn’t even be there. We’ve to return in time to the start of her story to search out out why the Iron Woman, la Dame de Fer as she is understood in France, is even there within the first place! After which we’ll share a number of the unimaginable details about this lofty legend.
Do you know that certainly one of her rivals as heart piece for the grand Paris honest she was designed for, was a 300m excessive guillotine? Sure actually. How she was virtually despatched to Montreal in Canada – all 2.5 million rivets and 18,000 items! Learn the way a conman ‘offered’ her for scrap. Uncover who the primary well-known guests had been – Buffalo Invoice was amongst them! And learn how Gustave Eiffel made a fully fortune from the Eiffel Tower! Plus an entire heap extra! It’s a tremendous story…
Plus a listener asks “I’m coming to France for the primary time to spend Christmas in Paris and I’m so excited – however I wish to know is it true that in France you don’t tip the servers in eating places?” We reveal all…
Brit Janine Marsh, creator of three worldwide best-selling books about life in France the place she lives, and new e book The best way to be French – a celebration of the French way of life and artwork de vivre – a celebration of the French lifestyle, and Frenchman Olivier Jauffrit of radio Paris Chanson, share all the pieces France and extra by way of this podcast…
Arising
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