Pont de la Concorde

The Pont of the Harmony is a Pont located at Paris and crossing the the Seine between the Quai of Tileries (Place of the Harmony) and the Quai of Orsay.

It was known under the names of bridge Louis XVI , bridge of the Revolution , bridge of the Harmony , again bridge Louis XVI during the Restauration (1814), and definitively bridge of the Harmony since 1830.

The architect Jean-Rodolphe Perronet, who created in 1775 with Daniel-Charles Trudaine the royal School of the Highways Departments (today National school of the Highways Departments), is in charge in 1787 of the construction of this Bridge arch. This bridge was in project since 1725, during the construction of the place Louis XV (today place of the Harmony ), to replace the vat which then ensured the crossing this place. Ensuring construction in full revolutionary upheaval, it uses for the Maçonnerie stones of size coming from the demolition of the Bastille, taken by storm the July 14th 1789.

In 1810, Napoleon Bonaparte made there place Statue S in the honor of eight general died at the field of honor during the campaigns of the First Empire.

With the Restoration, one replaced them by a whole of twelve monumental statues in white Marbre of four large ministers (Colbert, Richelieu, Suger, Sully), four soldiers (Bayard, Condé, Of Guesclin, Turenne) and four sailors (Duguay-Trouin, Duquesne, Suffren, Tourville). But this unit is too heavy for the bridge, and Louis-Philippe Ier makes remove these statues to transfer them to Versailles.

Circulation is very dense there, and the bridge had to be widened on each side between 1930 and 1932, to reach the double of its initial width. The engineers Deval and Malet take care nevertheless to preserve the neo-classic Architecture original. It was renovated last once in 1983. It is today the Parisian bridge which supports the most traffic (put aside the ring road).

External bonds

  • Site of the town hall of Paris
  • Structurae: initial bridge
  • Structurae: widening of 1932
  • seen satellite of Google Map

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