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While the seventh arrondissement is on the Seine River’s Left Bank and the eighth arrondissement is on the its Right Bank, they are more closely related to each other than to their neighbors on the same side of the river. They are major employment and tourist centers, posh residential areas, and home to the French National Assembly, the Palais Bourbon.

The Eiffel Tower is perhaps Paris’s best-known landmark, recognized all over the world. This structure, once the world’s tallest and still the most visited, attracts over six million paying visitors a year. It was erected between 1887 and 1889 for a World’s Fair honoring the French Revolution. Supposedly the French writer Guy de Maupassant ate lunch there every day, because it was the only Paris location where he couldn’t see the tower.

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