Engineer’s descendants say French capital landmark ‘not intended as advertising platform’
mayor to leave the Olympic rings as a permanent fixture on the French landmark that bears the engineer’s name.
“I want the spirit of celebration to remain,” she said in an interview with the Ouest-France regional newspaper. “I’m delighted that the French have fallen in love with Paris again, after 10 years of bashing and telling us that it was going to be hell.” The association said: “While we were delighted, like millions of French citizens, and men and women throughout the world, to see the Eiffel Tower bear the Olympic rings during the, we do not think it appropriate that the Eiffel Tower, which since its construction 135 years ago has become the symbol of Paris and, by extension, of France itself in the world, to carry the symbol of an external organisation, whatever its prestige, attached to it on a permanent basis.
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