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Sauvestre contributed to the design of the Eiffel Tower, adding the decorative arches to the base, a glass pavilion to the first level and the cupola at the top.
He also chose the color of the tower.
He received the support of Gustave Eiffel who bought the rights to the patent on the design which he had filed together with Maurice Koechlin and Émile Nouguier.
He was also the head of Architecture department of Compagnie des Etablissements Eiffel 
Tourist attractions.
The Eiffel Tower.
The Eiffel tower is acknowledged as the universal symbol of Paris and France.
It was originally designed by Émile Nouguier and Maurice Koechlin.
In March 1885 Gustave Eiffel, known primarily as a successful iron engineer, submitted a plan for a tower to the French Ministre du Commerce et de l'Industrie.
He entered a competition for students studying at the university.
The winning proposal would stand as the centerpiece of the 1889 Exposition.
Eiffel's was one of over 100 submissions.
Eiffel's proposal was finally chosen in June 1886.
Even before its construction, the Tower's uniqueness was noticed.
The Eiffel tower, was finally inaugurated on March 31, 1889.
Currently about 6.9 million people visit the Eiffel tower each year. 
Eiffel is a purely object-oriented language but provides an open architecture for interfacing with "external" software in any other programming language.
It is possible for example to program machine- and operating-system level operations in C. Eiffel provides a straightforward interface to C routines, including support for "inline C" (writing the body of an Eiffel routine in C, typically for short machine-level operations).
Although there is no direct connection between Eiffel and C, many Eiffel compilers (Visual Eiffel is one exception) output C source code as an intermediate language, to submit to a C compiler, for optimizing and portability.
As such, they are examples of transcompilers.
The Eiffel Compiler tecomp can execute Eiffel code directly (like an interpreter) without going via an intermediate C code or emit C code which will be passed to a C compiler in order to obtain optimized native code.
On .NET, the EiffelStudio compiler directly generates CIL (Common Intermediate Language) code.
The SmartEiffel compiler can also output Java bytecode. 
The Eiffel Tower (, ) is an iron lattice tower located on the Champ de Mars in Paris.
It was named after the engineer Gustave Eiffel, whose company designed and built the tower.
Erected in 1889 as the entrance arch to the 1889 World's Fair, it was initially criticised by some of France's leading artists and intellectuals for its design, but has become both a global cultural icon of France and one of the most recognizable structures in the world.
The tower is the tallest structure in Paris and the most-visited paid monument in the world; 6.98 million people ascended it in 2011.
The tower received its 250 millionth visitor in 2010.
The tower is tall, about the same height as an 81- building.
During its construction, the Eiffel Tower surpassed the Washington Monument to assume the title of the tallest man-made structure in the world, a title it held for 41 years, until the Chrysler Building in New York City was built in 1930.
Because of the addition of the antenna atop the Eiffel Tower in 1957, it is now taller than the Chrysler Building by .
Not including broadcast antennae, it is the second-tallest structure in France, after the Millau Viaduct.
The tower has three levels for visitors, with restaurants on the first and second.
The third level observatory's upper platform is above the ground, the highest accessible to the public in the European Union.
Tickets can be purchased to ascend by stairs or lift (elevator) to the first and second levels.
The climb from ground level to the first level is over 300 steps, as is the walk from the first to the second level.
Although there are stairs to the third and highest level, these are usually closed to the public and it is generally only accessible by lift.
Erika "Aya" Eiffel (née Erika LaBrie), is an American woman who famously "married" the Eiffel Tower in a commitment ceremony in 2007.
She is founder of OS Internationale, an organization for those who develop significant relationships with inanimate objects (objectophile).
She has been featured as a spokesperson and advocate in a wide variety of publications, and on radio talk shows and television programs.
She is a former US military member and archery world champion.
She continues to compete at an international level as an archer.
She claims that her object relationship with Lance, her competition bow, helped her to become a world-class archer.
She first encountered the Eiffel Tower in 2004, and felt an immediate attraction.
Her love for the Eiffel Tower and long standing relationship with the Berlin Wall are the subjects of numerous newspaper articles and television documentaries.
Regarding the attraction of herself and other similar people to inanimate objects, she is reported by ABC News as saying that she and others "[...] feel an innate connection to objects.
It comes perfectly normal to us to connect on various levels, emotional, spiritual and also physical for some.
"In April 2009, on the second anniversary of her "marriage" to the Eiffel Tower, she appeared on "Good Morning America" discussing how her object love empowered her.
Her 20-year relationship with the Berlin Wall inspired the musical theater production "Erika's Wall".
In 2011 a Finnish journalist moved to Berlin for a year to write a book about Erika's object relationships and everyday life.
"Rautaiset rakastajat – matkani Erika Eiffelin maailmaan" ("Iron lovers - Erika Eiffel, trip to the world of") was published in Finland in October 2012.