Paris Olympics are over, the drama surrounding them still hasn’t stopped. The city recently announced that it plans to keep ...

"The rings were never part of its original design," Gustave Eiffel's great-great granddaughter told NBC News, as the family ...

PARIS — Parisians won’t be saying “adieu” to the Olympic Games as early as they expected after the city’s mayor announced ...

Keeping the rings in place would go against "the neutrality and meaning acquired over the years by the Eiffel Tower, which has become the symbol of the city of Paris and even all of France across the ...

"It does not seem appropriate to us that the Eiffel Tower, which has become the symbol of Paris and the whole of France since its construction 135 years ago, has the symbol of an outside ...

The Eiffel Tower will keep the Olympic rings that have adorned it since June after the ongoing Paralympic Games, Paris mayor Anne Hidalgo said on Saturday. "As mayor of Paris, the decision is up to me ...

This photograph shows Olympic Rings on the Eiffel Tower taken from France Televisions set in Trocadero, during the Paris 2024 Olympic Games, in Paris, on July 31, 2024. STEPHANE DE SAKUTIN / AFP ...

“As mayor of Paris, the decision is mine,” she said. But the plans have irked the descendants of Gustave Eiffel, the engineer who designed the famous tower, who say it was “not intended as a ...

"The Eiffel Tower has become, since its creation, the symbol of Paris, and to a large extent, the symbol of France for most of the world. So to associate a different symbol, no matter how strong ...