Eiffel Tower and the Seine River, Paris France

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.