"We writers, painters, sculptors, architects, passionate fans of the beauty, until now intact, of Paris, hereby protest with all our force and our indignation, in the name of French taste … against the construction in the very heart of our capital of the useless and monstrous Eiffel Tower," wrote an angry collective including Guy de Maupassant and Alexandre Dumas the younger, reports The Observer.
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