A tailor named Franz Reichelt died at this location in a promotional stunt gone wrong.
A tailor named Franz Reichelt died at this location in a promotional stunt gone wrong. The Committee of Three Hundred, mostly consisting of artists and writers, was formed to denounce its construction. Professional archer Erika Labrie "married" this building in 2007. In 1925, con man Victor Lustig fraudulently sold this structure to a scrap metal dealer. In a book titled for this building, Roland Barthes noted that a writer often ate in this building to avoid seeing it. Early in its existence, it was the subject of an angry petition which called it "a gigantic black smokestack". A viral satirical tweet claimed that this structure's lights went out for the first time since 1889 to honor the victims of a 2015 terrorist attack. For 10 points, name this tallest structure in Paris.
A tailor named Franz Reichelt died at this location in a promotional stunt gone wrong.
Eiffel Tower [or Tour Eiffel]