Pictures of the Eiffel Tower in Paris

By Courtney Traub, About.com Guide

Georges Garen's 1889 painting of a newly inaugurated Eiffel Tower lit spectacularly for the Universal Exhibit of 1889 gives a dramatic sense of the tower's unveiling in Belle-Epoque Paris.

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