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Thursday, March 11, 2010
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Airfares Below $1,000 are Available from All Major U.S. International Airports - I Guarantee It
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| The Professor's Paris Blog
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To see all Paris blogs for Year 1, click: HERE
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Written by:
TravelingProfessor
Tuesday, June 09, 2009
When self-made millionaire and engineer Gustave Eiffel won a contest to erect a colossal tower as the spectacular centerpiece of the 1889 Exposition Universelle, Parisian tastemakers were outraged. They denounced Eiffel’s proposed thousand-foot tower as a “hideous” blot on their historic city, even as fearful residents brought lawsuits amid predictions of certain structural calamity.
Eiffel, a hugely gifted builder of remarkable railroad bridges, persevered, overcoming formidable obstacles. His two hundred workers raced to assemble 18,038 pieces of wrought-iron with two and a half million rivets to create the world’s tallest building. The iron skeleton rose to dominate the Parisian skyline, its sheer size and audacity making the tower a celebrated symbol of technological progress and the modern. In Eiffel’s Tower, Jill Jonnes, author of the critically acclaimed Conquering Gotham, recounts the compelling history of the tower’s conception, building, and reception in Belle Epoque France.
But the Eiffel Tower is only part of this story, for the Paris Exposition itself was a milestone of emerging technology, late 19th century globalism, and an extraordinary flourishing of the arts and journalism. Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Show, featuring famous sharpshooter Annie Oakley and a full retinue of Native Americans, enthralled Parisians, while Thomas Edison, come to promote his new talking phonograph in Europe, was feted as a genius; the painters Whistler, Gauguin, and van Gogh were exploring new frontiers in art, and James Gordon Bennett, Jr. of the Paris Herald was reinventing the news. At the fanciful exposition grounds, fairgoers crowded Asian and African shops and mock villages, fascinated by these first glimpses the newly global world of colonial empire and trade.
Eiffel’s Tower is a richly textured portrait of a visionary, of an architectural icon that became the glamorous symbol of Paris and French culture, and of an era at the dawn of modernity, reveling in the limitless promise of the future.
Here is a link for more information on Jill's book:
Eiffel's Tower: And the World's Fair Where Buffalo Bill Beguiled Paris, the Artists Quarreled, and Thomas Edison Became a Count
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| The Great Paris Travel Book Give-Away
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That's right - I am GIVING AWAY some of my best travel books including my Zagat's Paris Restaurant Guide and books by Fodor's and Rough Guides.
I will ship these books out to you ABSOLUTELY FREE. For a complete list of the Paris books to be given away and how to get one, click here.
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| Travel With Our Group to Paris In May 2010 - Only 9 Spots Left!
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This is an easy way to travel to Paris, especially if you have never gone before. I take care of all the details for you. Included with the trip:
- Transportation passes - metro/bus/train. All of your travel in Paris is covered.
- VIP, unlimited admission to over 60 great attractions including the Louvre, Orsay, Versailles, Pantheon, Arc de Triomphe, Orangerie, Conciergerie, Cluny, Rodin Museum and Gardens, Napoleon's Tomb, Army Museum, Sainte-Chapelle, and much more.
- Hotel arrangement in a clean, comfortable, quiet hotel in a central location.
- Transportation to/from airport
- Daily travel itineraries
- Guided tours
- Restaurant recommendations
- Welcome Dinner - Get to know your traveling companions
- Trip to Versailles including transportation and VIP admission
- Personalized, individual travel consultations
- Trip to Giverney - home of Monet. Train (no busses on this trip) and admission INCLUDED
- Other optional trips - Champagne houses of Reims, Normandy Invasion Beaches, and more.
May is a beautiful time to visit Paris - perhaps the nicest time of year.
In order for you to take advantage of the lowest possible airfare from your city, the group meets in Paris and starts the tour there.
This is not a cattle-car tourist trip to Paris. We go as travelers and see Paris as it should be seen. You will have two guides at your service, Professor Steve Solosky and Professor Greg Arend will make sure that you have a wonderful Paris experience.
And the best part - it only costs $1,495 (double occupancy). This is one of the best Paris travel deals you will find anywhere.
If you cannot find R/T airfare for under $1,000 from a major U.S. international airport to Paris, I will make up the difference - that is an unbelievable guarantee.
Your $100 deposit holds your place and is fully refundable until April 1, 2010. Dates of the trip are Monday, May 24 through Sunday, May 30 (May 31 is Memorial Day).
THIS TRIP WILL SELL OUT QUICKLY. Contact me right away if you are interested at: info@travelingprofessor.com.
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| One of the Top Paris Travel Guide Books - Now on Kindle Too!
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This compact guide is written for the Paris traveler by a Paris traveler. You may purchase many travel guide books for your trip to Paris, but "The Traveling Professor's Guide to Paris" is the one that you will use.
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| What's Inside the TravelingProfessor.Com
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TravelingProfessor.com is one of the most popular Paris travel websites on the web. If you travel to Paris (or just wish you could travel to Paris), take a look at the features on the TravelingProfessor.Com:
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| The Paris Video Blog - Pere Lachaise Cemetery
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Paris' Pere Lachaise Cemetery is one of the most visited burial places in the world. It is the final vacation spot for such luminaries as Rossini and Chopin, Simone Signoret and Yves Montand, Edith Piaf, Marcel Proust, Alice B. Toklas and Gertrude Stein, Jim Morrison, Oscar Wilde, Max Ernst, Isadora Duncan and many more. It is certainly worth a visit. But if you can't get there right away, take a look at this video.
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