The Independent - London, April 1st, 2000
BRITAIN, FRANCE and Germany are at war once more. Fortunately, the battles are being fought in the fields of travel and tourism, not Flanders. The war of words is over the size of national icons, the symbols that each country creates to celebrate centuries. France is way ahead of the game. It realised the importance of monumental projects in 1889, when the Eiffel Tower was erected to celebrate the centenary of the French Revolution. Gustave Eiffel's 300m iron tower was intended as a temporary embellishment. The structure's salvation was the contrivance of radio. The demands of Parisian intell...
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