Who put light bulbs on the Eiffel tower?

According to the French wikipedia site, there are 20,000 strobe lights which were placed on the Eiffel Tower to celebrate the year 2000. They are still there with their 40 km of wiring and light up for 10 minutes on the hour every hour after sunset until 1 or 2 am.

http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Histoire_synth%C3%A9tique_de_la_tour_Eiffel