Pont Louis-Philippe
Pont Louis-Philippe | |
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Coordinates | 48°51′14″N 02°21′16″E / 48.85389°N 2.35444°E |
Carries | Motor vehicles, pedestrians, and bicycles |
Crosses | the River Seine |
Locale | Paris, France |
Official name | Pont Louis-Philippe |
Next upstream | Pont Marie |
Next downstream | Pont Saint-Louis Pont d'Arcole |
Characteristics | |
Design | Arch Bridge |
Total length | 100 metres (330 ft) |
Width | 15.2 metres (50 ft) |
History | |
Construction start | 1860 |
Construction end | 1862 |
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The Pont Louis-Philippe is a bridge across the
History
On 29 July 1833, to celebrate his accession to the throne following the "
In the face of increased traffic (the tollhouses had not been restored), it was demolished to be replaced by the present structure in 1860. This new structure, an arch bridge, was built by the engineers, Edmond-Jules Féline-Romany and Jules Savarin, between August 1860 and April 1862, a little further upstream than its predecessor. The Pont Louis-Philippe was inaugurated in April 1862. The spandrels above the four-metre-wide piers in the Seine are decorated with stone laurel wreaths surrounding metallic rosettes.
The only modification since then (unlike its much-modified contemporary, the Pont de Bercy) was the replacement of the stone guardrails (badly damaged by pollution) with replica railings in 1995.
Metro station
The Pont Louis-Philippe is:
Located near the Pont Marie .
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It is served by line 7.
Bibliography
- Felix and Louis Lazare, Dictionnaire historique des rues et monuments of Paris in 1855 with plans for 48 neighborhoods, Maisonneuve & Larose, 796 p. (ISBN 2-86877-184-X).
External links
- (in French) Mairie de Paris
- (in French) Structurae