Richard Plaud's matchstick Eiffel Tower will be included in the “Guinness World Records” The British judges finally validated this French record. After devoting eight years to assembling 706,900 matches, the model maker is now awaiting his official diploma.

“We may have been a little harsh with this request,” Mark McKinley, one of the directors of ‘Guinness’ admitted in the English press. ‘I'm going to put it in the living room to see it every day,’ smiles Richard Plaud.