Alice Brière-Haquet, illus. by Csil. Little Gestalten (Prestel, dist.), $19.95 (32p) ISBN 978-3-89955-755-8 Brière-Haquet and Csil reimagine the Eiffel Tower as an elaborate cure for engineer Gustave ...

Gustave Eiffel, the man behind France’s most well-known landmark, is a passionate lover first, and an engineer second in this tedious 19th century romance. By Beatrice Loayza When you purchase a ...

Two of his senior engineers, Maurice Koechlin and Emile Nouguier, drafted the first version in 1884. At first, Eiffel wasn’t impressed by their sketches—he thought they looked too plain. But once ...

The French government is asking Gustave Eiffel to design something spectacular for the 1889 Paris World Fair, but he simply wants to design the subway—until he crosses paths with a mysterious woman ...

Phoebe Christofi is a resource writer for Collider based in Adelaide. She is currently the commissioning editor for a book publishing house, and journalist. Previously she wrote a book column for a ...

France tv distribution has boarded “Eiffel Tower: Building the Impossible,” a documentary shedding light on what it took for pioneering engineer Gustave Eiffel to build the famous French landmark.

As much as the French capital reveled in the celebratory air of the Olympics this summer, many are less than thrilled to discover Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo’s plan to keep the iconic Olympic rings on ...