{"id":217,"date":"2023-11-15T19:50:59","date_gmt":"2023-11-15T19:50:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/startersites.io\/blocksy\/daily-news\/?p=217"},"modified":"2026-08-30T02:04:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-30T02:04:09","slug":"ultricies-leo-integer-malesuada-nunc-vel-bisus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pastsaga.com\/ro\/ultricies-leo-integer-malesuada-nunc-vel-bisus\/","title":{"rendered":"The Man Who Sold the Eiffel Tower \u2014 Twice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In 1925, a con artist named Victor Lustig read a newspaper article about the Eiffel Tower needing costly repairs, and saw an opportunity most people would never have imagined.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Posing as a government official, he quietly invited a group of scrap metal dealers to a secret meeting, explaining that the tower was to be sold for scrap due to the expense of maintaining it. He collected a &#8220;bribe&#8221; from the winning bidder to keep the deal quiet \u2014 and then vanished before anyone realized there was no real sale.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 id=\"confident-enough-to-try-it-again\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">Confident Enough to Try It Again<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The embarrassed victim never went to police, afraid of looking foolish. Lustig, encouraged by his success, returned to Paris months later and attempted to sell the Eiffel Tower a second time to a different buyer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He was eventually caught for other crimes, including counterfeiting, but the Eiffel Tower scheme remains one of the boldest confidence tricks in recorded history.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>What does it take to convince someone they&#8217;re buying a national monument?<\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 1925, a con artist named Victor Lustig read a newspaper article about the Eiffel Tower needing costly repairs, and saw an opportunity most people would never have imagined. Posing as a government official, he quietly invited a group of scrap metal dealers to a secret meeting, explaining that the tower was to be sold [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":966,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_gspb_post_css":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-217","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-forgotten-stories"],"blocksy_meta":{"styles_descriptor":{"styles":{"desktop":"","tablet":"","mobile":""},"google_fonts":[],"version":8}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastsaga.com\/ro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastsaga.com\/ro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastsaga.com\/ro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastsaga.com\/ro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastsaga.com\/ro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=217"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/pastsaga.com\/ro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1020,"href":"https:\/\/pastsaga.com\/ro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217\/revisions\/1020"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastsaga.com\/ro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/966"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastsaga.com\/ro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastsaga.com\/ro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastsaga.com\/ro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}