French president Emmanuel Macron has penned a poem about the Eiffel Tower as a present for a British teenager's birthday.

The French Embassy in the UK tweeted Mr Macron's verse, which he wrote in response to a poem written by Sophie, then 12, after she visited Paris in April.

On Sophie's birthday on Thursday, embassy staff tweeted: "A special birthday present for Sophie, 13 today: President @EmmanuelMacron's reply to her poem on the #EiffelTower. Bon anniversaire Sophie!"

Sophie's original, entitled Centre of Attention, describes the famous landmark as "as pretty as a picture", going on to say the tower is "noticed by everyone" and is "second to none".

Read the original French version of the #poem written by French President @EmmanuelMacron to Sophie on her 13th birthday . #EiffelTower pic.twitter.com/M32IBuQ0rf — French Embassy UK (@FranceintheUK) November 2, 2017

Mr Macron's poem, tweeted both in French and in English, is written in the voice of the Eiffel Tower, which says to the teenager: "How you flatter me! So few poets these days/ Ever sing the praises of my Parisian soul."

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