Gustave Eiffel,
whom the tower is named after, was not its original designer; Maurice
Koechlin and Emile Nouguier were. Gustave, however, bought the rights
to the patent on the design, and was the engineer in charge of the
tower's construction. Gustave also engineered the construction of the
New York's Statue of Liberty. The entire statue was erected in Paris
before being dismantled and shipped to the United States.
Replicas of the Statue of Liberty can be seen not only around Paris, but around the world.
The Seine River
divides Paris into two - the Rive Gauche, or Left Bank, skirting the
south side of the city and the Rive Droite, or Right Bank, the north
side. Historically and traditionally, the Left Bank was the artsy
side. A place where such literary greats as F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, James Joyce, Henry Miller, Anaïs Nin, Ezra Pound, and Gertrude Stein called home. The Right Bank, historically, is the more affluent side.
