6 Surprising Facts About the Eiffel Tower
| June 17, 2015
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2. The Eiffel Tower Was Almost Disassembled for Expo 1967 in Montreal
In 1960, the mayor of Montreal, Jean Drapeau, negotiated a secret agreement with French president Charles de Gaulle to disassemble the Eiffel Tower and rebuild it in Montreal for the 1967 Universal Exposition. Drapeau was hoping for the tower to serve as a temporary landmark and tourist attraction for the Expo. Studies were carried out in secret, figuring out how best to dismantle and ship the tower over the ocean to Montreal. However, the plan was scrapped because the company that oversees operations of the tower was worried that once Expo was finished, the government would try and put the tower somewhere else, instead of bringing it back to Paris.
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