The monument responds to seasonal temperatures, contracting a few millimeters when it's cold and expanding when it's warm.

There is always heavy security near the Eiffel Tower, Paris's most visited site French intelligence officials believe Russia is behind a stunt in which five coffins draped in a French flag and ...

In a gaffe shortly before French President Emmanuel Macron declared the Games open, the five-ring Olympic flag was raised upside down at the Trocadero, across from the Eiffel Tower.

With the ambitious ceremony, the stakes for France were immense ... the five-ring Olympic flag was raised upside down at the Trocadero across from the Eiffel Tower. In some memorable moments ...