Six questions about a man who sold the Eiffel Tower (twice), a “petrified giant” so famous that someone faked the fake, and the swindler whose whole legend may itself be a swindle — all of them true.
Your first question:
In 1925, a con man read a newspaper story about how expensive the Eiffel Tower was to maintain — and immediately saw an opportunity. Posing as a government official, he gathered France’s top scrap-metal dealers and offered to sell them the tower for scrap. Who pulled it off?
