Gustave Eiffel, a monumental life

Through the personality of GUSTAVE EIFFEL, which Bertrand Lemoine’s essay follows here chronologically, in his works, it is a whole adventure, a whole prehistory of modernity that we will find - by discovering in passing that the Eiffel Tower, which sums up and exalts the meaning of this adventure, is at the same time the tree that hides the forest - the innumerable and often unexpected achievements by which Gustave Eiffel contributed powerfully to affirm the traits of the industrial age.