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The Tallest Tower: Eiffel and the Belle Epoque
The Tallest Tower: Eiffel and the Belle Epoque
The Tallest Tower: Eiffel and the Belle Epoque
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The Paris Universal Exposition of 1889 marked both the centennial of the French Revolution and France's recovery from the humiliating defeat of the Franco-Prussian War.  Gustave Eiffel's thousand-foot tower celebrated both those events.  But the tower was a stunning accomplishment in its own right, the tallest structure ma

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Release dateFeb 27, 2018
ISBN9782900785027
The Tallest Tower: Eiffel and the Belle Epoque
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Joseph Harriss

After graduation from the University of Notre Dame, Joseph Harriss studied French and international relations at the Sorbonne and Institut d'Études Politiques before joining the Paris bureau of Time magazine. Besides covering French affairs from politics and economics to couture and cuisine, he also reported from Algiers and Brussels and wrote for the magazine in the New York headquarters. He later joined the international editions of Reader's Digest and covered Western Europe as a roving correspondent based, again, in Paris. Besides that, he has done articles and columns for a number of publications, such as The Dallas Morning News, Smithsonian magazine, and The American Spectator. He lives in Paris.

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