After the completion of the tower, Eiffel invited Cournot, a famous musician who had opposed the construction of the tower, to sit in the salon at the top of the tower and enjoy the wonders of the sky. Seeing the beautiful scenery, Cournot was ecstatic, abandoned prejudice in the face of reality and improvised Concerto in the Cloud based on a poem by Miao Sai. Nevertheless, the completion of the tower still caused opposition movements. Those literate French scholars hate this trendy and avant-garde building, and many writers have signed petitions to jointly oppose this "dragon". They dismissed it as "vulgar and disgusting shadow, a mess", and thought it had a bad influence on the city appearance of Paris and was an insult to the great buildings in Paris. Mo Bosang, a writer, frequents a restaurant on the terrace, just because it is the only place in Paris where you can't see the tower. When the poet Paul Vilaine saw it for the first time, he told the coachman to turn around immediately, so as not to look at this "ugly and annoying thing" again, which would affect his good mood and inspiration for poetry creation.
When the tower was first built, people's surprise, doubt and even anger at the tower can be found on the basis of cultural awareness. People don't want to see changes, especially things that change their usual psychological balance and bring shocks. The solemnity, grandeur, solemnity and grandeur of traditional style steles have condensed into subconscious standards, which is the so-called traditional posture, and sometimes it is irrational. This mentality almost brought bad luck to the Eiffel Tower. At the beginning of the First World War, the call for dismantling the tower in the society subsided a little, but it was not completely over. In the 1920s, the French government was still considering demolishing the tower and preparing to use its 654.38+100000 tons of iron to build factories in those war-damaged areas. Fortunately, due to the tense battlefield situation, this move was finally abandoned. Because according to the original construction contract, the Eiffel Tower will be demolished 20 years after its completion. After World War II, a true anecdote happened around this tower. A non-staple food supplier actually sold 7,000 tons of iron in the iron tower to a scrap buyer and got an advance payment of 500,000 francs. The occurrence of this absurd event shows from one side that the tower did not occupy much weight in people's minds at that time.