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Finding a subject for a tourist’s look at the Eiffel Tower doesn’t require much effort. Since I’ve remained one in my own city, I’m probably the ideal man to talk about it. I chose to focus on the Eiffel Tower area. Curves<\/a> are everywhere here. This is where sports fan zones are usually set up, and in 2024 it hosted the temporary Olympic Games site, not to mention the countless tourists who have flocked here in even greater numbers since that event. The Eiffel Tower, since that’s today’s topic, is the epitome of curves.<\/p>\n

A tourist’s look at the Eiffel Tower and its neighbourhood<\/h2>\n

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Industry, beautiful and elegant<\/h3>\n

Back then, industrial architecture knew how to be beautiful and elegant. What a feast for the eyes! Personally, I never tire of it. And since the Tower happens to be on my way to the office\u2026<\/p>\n

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People often forget that many intellectuals signed a petition demanding the Tower be dismantled. Among them were Charles Garnier, Charles Gounod, and even \u00c9mile Zola! Which goes to show that one can be both a modernist and a conservative at the same time.<\/p>\n

An epigraph in curves<\/h3>\n

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Behind the Eiffel Tower stands the Trocad\u00e9ro and its Palais de Chaillot, built in the 1930s. More curves, all curves. On this particular bend, this beguiling architectural epigraph I dote on reading:<\/p>\n

IT DEPENDS ON HE WHO PASSES
\nWHETHER I BE TOMB OR TREASURE
\nWHETHER I SPEAK OR REMAIN SILENT
\nTHIS RESTS WITH YOU ALONE
\n<\/strong>FRIEND, DO NOT ENTER WITHOUT DESIRE<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Thanks to my favourite AI search tool, I tracked down the origin of this verse. It’s a poem by Paul Val\u00e9ry. Facing the Eiffel Tower, this work, “taken from Charmes<\/em> (1922), invites the visitor to engage actively with the place and the culture it houses,” my learned tool informs me. This building is home to the Mus\u00e9e de l’Homme and the Cit\u00e9 de l’Architecture. And yet people claim technology only serves to dumb down the masses. But as with museums, what you take away depends on those who “enter with desire”.<\/p>\n

Question: do the tourists standing in front of the museum taking selfies show any desire to learn?<\/p>\n

My research also taught me that the statue in the foreground is Henri Bouchard’s Apollo Musagetes<\/em><\/a> (leader of the Muses), holding his lyre, and not a work by Bourdelle. However, Bouchard succeeded Bourdelle as an guest member of the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Antwerp in 1930. So there is indeed some resemblance between these two sculptors, even if they weren’t formally affiliated with the same school.<\/p>\n

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A tourist’s look at the Eiffel Tower area: a Guimard entrance at Dauphine metro station<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

A little further north, you reach Dauphine metro station. It was designed by Hector Guimard and is a gem of Parisian Art Nouveau<\/a>. Its vegetal interlacing in cast iron has become one of the capital’s symbols, alongside the metro entrances at Denfert Rochereau, Abbesses (relocated in earlier times<\/a>), and Arts et M\u00e9tiers.<\/p>\n

Still a tourist after all these years<\/h3>\n

I’ve lived in Paris for decades, yet I remain a provincial at heart. A tourist, really. I’ve never lost that capacity for wonder at what born-and-bred Parisians no longer even notice. The Eiffel Tower at dawn, the swirls of a Guimard metro entrance, the majestic curves of the Trocad\u00e9ro: each time feels like I’m discovering them for the first time. True Parisians walk past without looking up. I still stop, camera in hand, looking up in the air. Perhaps that’s my privilege as a provincial man: keeping intact one’s sense of wonder at this city that never stops putting on a show \u2013 a city every Frenchman or woman loves to hate, forgetting just how beautiful it is.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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