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Eiffel Tower closed as staff strike on 100th anniversary of creator’s death
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This is the best summary I could come up with:
The powerful CGT union said the industrial action taking place ahead of contract negotiations with City Hall, which owns the tower, was in protest over “the current way it is managed”.
Union leaders claim the operating company, SETE, is “heading for disaster” because its business model is “too ambitious and unsustainable” and based on an over-optimistic estimate of future revenue from ticket sales and an underestimation of spiralling maintenance and repair costs.
A light and sound show, overseen by a DJ and featuring artistic music and dance performances, to be broadcast from the first floor of the tower as well as on social media and television to mark the centenary of Eiffel’s death on Wednesday evening was pre-recorded and was not affected by the strike, SETE said.
A visionary entrepreneur and brilliant structural engineer, he had just finished building an iron and steel skeleton for the Statue of Liberty in New York with Eugène Viollet-le-Duc of Notre Dame Cathedral spire fame when approached to create a symbol of French industrial savoir-faire for the 1889 Universal Exhibition.
Some, including the writers Guy de Maupassant and Alexandre Dumas the younger, could not wait to see it go, describing it as “useless and monstrous” and an affront to “French taste” even before the foundations had been laid.
City officials decided to spare what became known as the Dame de Fer (Iron Lady) after realising the tower, then the tallest building in the world, could be used as a radiotelegraph and weather station.
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