Tour Eiffel has a 5.7% earnings yield, a full percentage point greater than the French ten-year, whereas U.S. REITs average just a half-point over the ten-year T note.

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Nearly half of the rooms face south with dramatic views across the Seine to the nearby Eiffel Tour.

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Perched up high on the hill of Montmartre in the 18th arrondissement, it has a panoramic view of Paris, encompassing the grey roofs of the city skyline as well as the Tour Montparnasse, Les Invalides and the Eiffel Tower, lined up perfectly from left to right along the horizon.

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All the closets had been locked, but she found a few of her things a pile of Indian movie magazines, a little dish with an image of the Eiffel Tower that her grandfather had brought home from a European tour in the nineteen-twenties.

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