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# Outgoing mayor's narcissism and elite greed as causes of a distorted capital cityscape
- URL: https://theparnassian.com/en/treugolnaia-bashnia-v-parizhe-ozhidanie-i-realnost/
- Published: 2025-12-02T06:33:35.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-02T18:41:19.000Z
- Author: Alexandr Radayev
- Tags: Architecture, Observations, Society, Paris

The Triangular Tower in Paris: Expectation and Reality.

Though both are equally ill-suited to the balance of the capital's panorama and to the elegance of the silhouette of the most beautiful city in the world.

Most curious of all, the chief reasons for the existence of this incongruity, which distorts every historical perspective, are the excessive narcissism of an outgoing mayor at the close of her term and the universal thirst for easy profit among the elites

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