It was only meant to stand for 20 years before being dismantled. Many Parisians hated it as an eyesore. Over eight thousand pieces of iron and two and a half million rivets, assembled by 300 workers. One died in the process. It was inaugurated 122 years ago, on the 31st of March, 1889.
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