I was at Roseville, watching 'Eiffel'. It's a very watchable film. It's about Gustave Eiffel, his amazing tower, and his somewhat sad and sorry relationship with the love of his life (a woman, not a tower). That part might be all fiction. Not sure.
Re the tower, it was built for the 1889 Paris World's Fair, and a proposal had been submitted for a 200m tower, so as to beat the 169m Washington Monument. Eiffel decided to go for 300m instead, which is still a very respectable tower height to this day.
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