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INVESTIGATION. The surroundings of the Eiffel Tower, very popular with tourists, crystallize the concern. Resident associations are sounding the alarm.
By Antoine Boitel (with Nicolas Bastuck)
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Un summer night, on the lawns of the Champ-de-Mars, in the 7 e district of Paris. It is past 10 p.m., the thermometer still shows 26°C and the picnics are copiously washed down with alcohol. Under the combined effects of the heat wave and the crowd, the grass, burnt and trampled, looks sad. You have to slalom between the street vendors and the thousands of people present on the site to find your way. Tonight again, the whole world seems to have come together to see the Eiffel Tower sparkle. Two years before the Paris Olympics, the Iron Lady gets the twentieth facelift in its history; a stripping in order before applying a bronze skin more in line with the wishes of its architect, Gustave Eiffel. Stretched on the first floor, nets…
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