The Eiffel Tower was built in Paris in 1885-1889. The World Exhibition in 1889 and the hundredth anniversary of the French Revolution were occasions for this. According to an agreement between Gustave Eiffel, the city of Paris and the French state, the tower should only stop for twenty years. To open the tower, a special edition of the newspaper "Le Figaro" was printed, but a small printing company was set up on the tower. At first the tower was very controversial: it was one of the first buildings from a pure steel structure that many people considered too insecure. It was feared that the tower could fall over. The sight of the tower also disturbed many; The French writer Guy de Maupassant described the building as "screwed together". This name already provides a reference to the material.
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