2024-01-07 14:07:00
Not bad is not it ? It’s French. Richard Plaud built a 7.20 meter high Eiffel Tower using matches in Charente-Maritime. A creation that could earn him entry into the Guinness Book of Records.
“I’ve been thinking about entering the Guinness Book for around forty years,” confides the man who is employed in the departmental council’s art works department to France Blue. It took him eight years to complete this project, assisted, among others, by his sons and his wife, who participated in this adventure by sticking matches or managing the logistics.
706,900 matches were needed for construction. Richard Plaud stuck the last one on December 27, the centenary of the death of Gustave Eiffel. A surveyor will measure his tower this Sunday. If the record is approved, the 47-year-old Frenchman would dethrone a Lebanese, who had completed a matchstick construction of 6.53 meters in 2009.
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