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Pictures of the Eiffel Tower and surrounding gardens, its internal structure: beams, girders and pulleys, the palais de Chaillot, the champ de Mars, pont Alexandre III, Square Rapp, and the Esplanade Trocadéro by David Henry. Regardez cette page en français…

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The north side of the Eiffel Tower, viewed from the Jardin du Trocadéro.

The Eiffel Tower seen from palais de Chaillot

 The sun setting behind the Eiffel Tower, Sunday, January 29th, 2006.

The sun sets on the Eiffel Tower seen from pont Alexandre III
The Eiffel Tower framed by glass corn cobs, part of the Nymph of the Neva sculpture on Pont Alexandre III, by Georges Récipon.

The Eiffel Tower seen through sculptures on Pont Alexandre III

 The sun setting behind the Eiffel Tower and the dome of l’Institut de France, seen from quai de la Mégisserie, near place du Châtelet.

The Eiffel Tower and the French Institute at sunset
Horizontal pink clouds floating behind the Eiffel Tower at sunset. At 1,063 feet tall, the Eiffel Tower surpassed the Washington Monument to assume the title of tallest man-made structure in the world, until the Chrysler Building in New York City was completed in 1930.

The sun setting behind the Eiffel Tower

 The Eiffel Tower at sunset behind l’Institut de France, seen from place du Châtelet. L’Institut de France was founded in 1795 and housed in the former Collège des Quatre-Nations on quai de Conti.

The Eiffel Tower at dusk with l’Institut de France in the foreground
The view from below

The Eiffel Tower viewed from below

 The Eiffel Tower

The Eiffel Tower
The Eiffel Tower seen behind a group of three statues entitled «Les Trois Grâces», made by Aristide Maillol in 1938. The statues were set in the Jardin des Tuileries in 1964, then moved to the Jardin du Carrousel in 1995.

The Eiffel Tower seen behind three statues in the Jardin du Carrousel

 The view looking south from the observation deck on top of l’arc de Triomphe.

The Eiffel Tower seen from l’arc de Triomphe
The champs de Mars and the Eiffel tower seen at night from avenue Joseph Bouvard.

The Eiffel Tower viewed from the champ de Mars

 Thousands of vistors wandering underneath the Eiffel Tower and across pont d’Iéna on an early summer evening.

The Eiffel Tower viewed from across the river Seine
A nighttime view looking west along rue Saint-Dominique with the Eiffel Tower behind.

The Eiffel Tower seen from boulevard de La Tour de Maubourg at night

 The uppermost levels of the Eiffel Tower enveloped by dark grey clouds, seen from palais Trocadéro.

The top of the Eiffel Tower surrounded by clouds
Hundreds of the 20,000 lights flashing just after midnight on the Eiffel Tower. In the foreground is the equestrian statue of a Greek warrior at the southwest corner of the pont d’Iéna, sculpted by François Delvaux in 1853.

A statue on the Jena Bridge in front of the Eiffel Tower at night

 On the occasion of the Millennium Celebrations flashing lights were installed on the Eiffel Tower. Since then, the light show is a nightly event, and the 20,000 flash bulbs give the tower a sparkly appearance every hour on the hour.

Lights flashing on the Eiffel Tower at night
Built in 1889 for the Exposition Universelle, the Eiffel Tower was the tallest structure in the world, at 300 meters.

Lower structural girders of the Eiffel Tower, at early dusk

 The northern leg of the Eiffel Tower seen from port Debilly, on the right bank.

The north pylon of Eiffel Tower seen from avenue de New-York
The Eiffel Tower viewed from Allée des Refuzniks, in the gardens at the northwest side of the Champ de Mars.

The Eiffel Tower seen from the gardens to the south west

 The Eiffel Tower framed by the iron gate at the entrance to square Rapp, an enclave of Art Nouveau architecture.

The Eiffel Tower viewed from Square Rapp
The Eiffel Tower is beautiful from the outside, from the inside, one has the impression of being in the film “Modern Times”, by Charlie Chaplin

Beams, girders and pulleys inside the Eiffel Tower

 This is a view you’ll only enjoy if you take the stairs.

A view inside the framework of the Eiffel Tower
The annual show of fireworks next to the Eiffel Tower seen from port des Champs-Élysées on July 14th, the anniversary of the French Revolution.

Fireworks next to the Eiffel Tower on Bastille Day 2010

 I was drawn to them because of the leopard-skin jacket, so I approached them with the idea of taking a picture

Two women in front of the Eiffel Tower posing at the palais de Chaillot
They do what looks like Tai Chi in slow motion, to the accompaniment of new age music

Falun’ Gong followers in front of the Eiffel Tower

 A bronze statue of Apollo Musagète, by Henri Bouchard, in front of the palais de Chaillot.

A statue on the Esplanade Trocadéro
The eastern wing of the Palais de Chaillot, built for the Exposition Internationale of 1937, on the designs of architects Louis-Hippolyte Boileau, Jacques Carlu and Léon Azéma.

The palais de Chaillot’s eastern wing

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