Pessimists Archive Podcast

Pessimists Archive

Real, cynical old articles about new things read aloud. Based on @PessimistsArc.

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Pessimists Archive Podcast

Episodes (12)

Sep 15, 2025 Artists Against the Eiffel Tower (1887)
Dec 9, 2021 😷 'S.F. Feels Good Without Mask' - 1918, The San Francisco Examiner
Oct 31, 2021 📻 Weird, Ghostly and “Supernatural” Antics of the Radio (1931)

Pessimists Archive Podcast

Sep 15, 2025
4¼ minutes
6 MB

The Eiffel Tower is as iconic of France as croissants and baguettes, and equally emblematic of Paris as Notre-Dame or the Arc de Triomphe. Yet, before completion for the 1889 World’s Fair - the project was treated by some as an industrialist “Tower of Babel” that was anti-ethical to French taste and culture. A month after construction of the Tower began in 1887, a group of prominent French artists published an open letter titled ‘Artists against the Eiffel Tower’ featured on the front page of Parisian Newspaper ‘Les Temps.’ It began: "We, writers, p...

Pessimists Archive Podcast

Artists Against the Eiffel Tower (1887)

Pessimists Archive

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