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Four restaurants

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On the first floor, four restaurants were put in, each built in a different style:

  • The truest Muscovite-style Russian restaurant was one of the wonders of this floor
  • The Anglo-American bar consisted of a large room with a bar in the middle following the British and American trend
  • The French restaurant had a façade reminiscent of a gazebo with a green trellis on a white backdrop. Situated on the platform facing the Ecole Militaire (now free), it consisted of a group of suites and exhibition rooms in the style of Louis XV
  • The Flemish restaurant. It would be transformed into a theatre after the 1889 Exposition, and would become “Dutch” in 1900, becoming a theatre once again after the 1900 Exposition.

Le Figaro printed on the Tower!

On the second floor, Le Figaro set up a printing works and produced a special edition of the daily newspaper on-site every day. Visitors who bought the newspaper could get their name put in it to “certify” that they had climbed the Tower. The newspaper’s cover illustration showed the Barber of Seville sat astride the Eiffel Tower.

Send your letters by balloon!

An unusual attraction was proposed to the public : send your letters by balloon! In its edition : ” Imprimée dans la Tour Eiffel” (“Printed on the Eiffel Tower”) on the 29th August, Le Figaro reported: “the Tower’s company is doing its utmost to increase the number of attractions in favour of its clientele. It has just decided to soon put up for sale, on all of the Tower’s floors, small balloons and cheap parachutes arranged in such a way that one can attach a letter to them. The sender’s address will be left blank. We wish the Tower’s parachutes the same success as its postcards! “. Indeed, the Eiffel Tower was to thank for the increasing popularity of the postcard in France, and it was at the request of visitors in 1889 that the Tower’s administration put the renowned “Libonis” on sale, named after its famous engraver. The oldest postmark stamped on a postcard showing the Eiffel Tower is the 21st August 1889.