The Eiffel Tower was built for the 1889 World’s Fair and was only meant to be a temporary structure. The plan was that it should be dismantled 20 years later. Some citizens of Paris would certainly have been pleased, as not everybody liked the tower. There were even protests against the construction.
It is also said that the French author Guy de Maupassant found the Eiffel tower horrible. So much so that he had his lunch almost every day in the restaurant on the first floor, so that at least he did not have to see it.