GabyEveryone knows the story that the French writer Guy de Maupassant hated the Eiffel Tower but regularly dined in its restaurant, explaining that it was the only place from which he couldn’t see it. However, few people know that there is a real apartment at the top of the Eiffel Tower.
The architect Gustave Eiffel, the creator of this structure that became a symbol of Paris, could not resist the small indulgence of having an office at a height of 300 meters and during the construction equipped himself with a small apartment featuring two bedrooms, a living room, a kitchen, a bathroom, and a laboratory on the upper floors of the tower.
He most often used it for relaxation and entertaining guests, and once he talked here with Thomas Edison for 10 hours.
Currently, the apartment is open to tourists, and visitors are greeted by wax figures of Edison and Eiffel, recreating the scene of their meeting that took place on September 10, 1899. What are these esteemed gentlemen discussing? Of course, about the achievements of technological progress!
