TAKING a photograph of the Eiffel Tower at night could result in you breaking the law. Thanks to the iconic light show which illuminates the attraction in the evening, it is actually illegal to tak… ...

Once the sun sets over Paris, the Eiffel Tower is lit in a dazzling display of 20,000 sparkling lights until 11 p.m. (or 1 a.m. during the summer). The show, which occurs nightly at the famous ...

The Tower’s creator, Gustave Eiffel, died in 1923, so in 1993 it re-entered public domain, but there’s still un petit problème: The lights installed by Pierre Bideau didn’t ignite until ...