Leaving London for good, he went to Paris in March 1889. He shortly lived in the house of a friend, Valentin Ventura, before transferring to a little room where he had as roommates two Filipinos, one of whom was Jose Albert, a student from Manila. In Paris, Rizal frequented the Bibliotheque Nationale, working on his annotation of the Sucesos. He spends his spare hours in the houses of friends like Juan Luna and his wife Paz Pardo de Tavera. Rizal witnessed -the Universal Exposition of Paris, having as its greatest attraction the Eiffel Tower.