Why was the Eiffel Tower built?

Who Smarted? - Educational Podcast for Kids

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🗓️ 1 August 2025

⏱️ 19 minutes

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0:00.0	Pse, bonjour smarty pants.
0:05.0	If you couldn't tell by the French music and me speaking the little bit of French I know,
0:10.0	right now I'm in Paris, France, currently riding a bicycle, while wearing a beret, and eating
0:16.0	lots of frommage or cheese.
0:18.0	One might say, too much cheese.
0:20.0	Of course, you can't visit Paris without seeing one of the most famous monuments in all the world.
0:25.6	Any guesses what it is?
0:27.1	Is it the Waffle Tower?
0:29.0	The Djanga Tower.
0:30.2	Or the Eiffel Tower?
0:32.1	Why, of course, it's the Eiffel Tower.
0:34.7	A Jenga Tower probably wouldn't last very long.
0:37.9	Ah, there it is. The Eiffel Tower. A Jenga Tower probably wouldn't last very long. Ah, there it is.
0:39.4	The Eiffel Tower.
0:41.4	All 984 feet of it.
0:44.2	It's as awe-inspiring today as it was back in 1889 when it was built.
0:49.5	I just wish Gustav Eiffel could see how beloved and magnificent.
0:53.9	His creation still remains.
0:57.0	Merci Bucco, narrator Fidel. That's a trusty narrator in French.
1:02.0	Gustav Eiffel? Inventor of the Eiffel Tower? 130 years ago?
1:06.5	But how? He asked, knowing it was just an actor, pretending to be someone from the past.
1:11.5	Oh, I was going to say some magical cheese brought me back to life.
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