Subscribers may view the full text of this article in its original form through TimesMachine. Paris, upon which the eye of the world is just now fixed, has, as the capital of France, a political ...

The Eiffel Tower, completed in 1889, was derided at first ... one must consider why the city looks the way it does today. Paris’ city plan and its architectural style mostly date back to ...

France’s famed capital city, Paris, will be home to the 2024 Summer ... Made of platinum-iridium in 1889, it is the standard for which all kilograms are based off. It is stored in the ...

PARIS — There are few sights more iconic ... the engineer who designed the eponymous tower for the city's Universal Exposition of 1889. “While the rings were celebrated on the Eiffel Tower ...

Paris City Hall wrote on social media ... Nicknamed the Iron Lady (La dame de fer), it was constructed between in 1887 and 1889 as the centerpiece of the 1889 World's Fair.