The man who said François Pignon?
Updated on 01/07/24 at 13:07
Richard Plaud has just completed an eight-year project, which he hopes will be crowned by a world record in the Guinness Book. Not bad, right? It’s French. Richard Plaud built a 7.20-meter high Eiffel Tower made of matches in Charente-Maritime. This creation could earn him a spot in the Guinness Book of World Records.
“It’s been about forty years that I’ve been aiming to enter the Guinness Book,” says the man who works for the county council’s art department to France Bleu. It took him eight years to finish this project, with the assistance of his sons and his wife, who participated in this adventure by gluing matches or managing the logistics. 706,900 matches were needed for the construction. Richard Plaud placed the last match on December 27, the centenary of Gustave Eiffel’s death. A surveyor will measure his tower this Sunday. If the record is approved, the 47-year-old Frenchman would surpass a Lebanese man, who had built a 6.53-meter structure made of matches in 2009.
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