France is going to put the Eiffel Tower behind an 8ft-high glass wall to protect it from terrorists following an attack at the Louvre.

The security measure is part of a multi-million euro plan to prevent jihadist attacks in the French capital, which have claimed 238 lives around France in the past two years.

It will cost around €19million and comes after a machete-wielding man stormed the Louvre last week in the latest attack on French soil.

French police officers and security personnel stand guard at a security cordon around the Eiffel Tower, roughly where the glass wall will be, after a bomb threat in 2010

'The terror threat remains high in Paris and the most vulnerable sites, led by the Eiffel Tower, must be the object of special security measures,' said deputy mayor Jean-Francois Martins.

'We have three aims: improve the look, make access easier and strengthen the protection of visitors and staff.'

'The wall will prevent individuals or vehicles storming the site visited by six million people each year.'

Paris' wall will replace the metal fences erected around the iconic monument during the Euro football championships in 2016

The cost of the project will be around £16million, le Parisien newspaper said, and will be erected this autumn.

Toughened glass panels will be constructed around the base of the Eiffel Tower and checks will be carried out for anyone wishing to pass through.

Eiffel Tower is illuminated in red, white and blue in honour of the November 2015 victims

France has been the victim of a string of ISIS-inspired terror attacks in the past two years, most notably the November 2015 atrocities which claimed the lives of 130 people.

Last year, Nice truck terrorist Mohamed Lahouaiej Bouhlel killed 86 people and injured 434 when he drove his truck into a crowd celebrating Bastille Day.

A copycat attack in Berlin by Anis Amri at a German Christmas market on December 19 killed 13 people, prompting ISIS to issue frightening advice to the group's twisted followers.

In its propaganda magazine Rumiyah, leaders said using trucks as a weapon of mass destruction was the way forward.

An article read: 'The method of such an attack is that a vehicle is plunged at a high speed into a large congregation of (non-believers)... and leaving behind a trail of carnage.

'Vehicles are like knives as they are extremely easy to acquire.

'But unlike knives, which if found in one's possession can be a cause for suspicion, vehicles arouse absolutely no doubts due to their widespread use throughout the world.

'Though being an essential part of modern life, very few actually comprehend the deadly and destructive capability of the motor vehicle.'

Rumiyah stated that heavy, large, load-bearing trucks would be ideal - and to avoid small cars and large SUVs.

The truck used by Mohamed Lahouaiej Bouhlel to kill dozens of people in Nice last year

Mohamed Lahouaiej Bouhlel (left) and Anis Amri (right) who both used lorries to slaughter

Last week, Egyptian Abdullah Reda al-Hamahmy, 29, was shot five times in the stomach last Friday outside the landmark museum.

He shouted 'Allahu Akbar' - Arabic for 'God is the greatest' during what French President Francoise Hollande described as a terrorist attack.

Hamahmy was carrying spray paints in his backpack, and told police he planned to damage paintings in the museum in order to 'avenge the Syrian people', but is said not to have been ordered by ISIS.

Among the famous paintings held at the art gallery in the heart of the French capital is the Mona Lisa, although this is kept behind glass.