Tour to Paris!

Guy de Maupassant, a French author, hated the Eiffel Tower so much he used to eat lunch at the bottom of it almost every day because it was the only place in Paris where he couldn’t see the tower. Today, the Eiffel Tower is a national icon and the title of ‘monstrosity’ now belongs to the Montparnasse Tower which summit offers a spectacular view over Paris.

Do you know why Paris is called the City of Light? It has nothing to do with the power used to illuminate the Eiffel Tower or the streetlights of the city. Lights, in this case, means intellectuals, referring to the high-concentration of writers, artists, and academics that have always been drawn to the city.

There is a Statue of Liberty in Paris that faces the Statue of Liberty in America, symbolizing the friendship between the two countries. The size is only 1/3 of the original. It was given to the French people in 1889 by the American community in Paris and stands on a small island in the Seine where it looks down the river toward the Atlantic ocean and New York.