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"Pont Neuf" (6)
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Let the ride featured on the Seine. From my point of view, I could not photograph that pieces of bridge, but it is usually the shooting details.
The nine Bridge is the oldest bridge in Paris. It has been Henri III and Catherine de Medici, who reside in the Louvre, wanted to be able to cross the river without encountering the congestion caused by the shortage of channels of communication. The King decided the construction and laid the first stone, in 1578, what remained for a long time to bridge the broadest measure of Paris.
The work, directed in a first time by the architect of the Baptist Androuet Cerceau, then by William Marchant, will last 30 years. They will be interrupted by the Wars of Religion, 1588 to 1599. Henri IV, which will inaugurate the book in 1607, named named Pont Neuf which will cross the centuries. First stone bridge without homes, provided sidewalks to protect pedestrians from mud and horses, it will be very popular since its opening.
The semi-circular terraces overlooking ridges allow passersby to sit and contemplate the landscape. They house, from 1675, bookshops installed there from 1615. The Pont-Neuf has been no change in structure since its inception. The wooden pilings of origin, which are the foundations of the pillars are still in place.
The arches are decorated with masks 385 of which are kept in museums in the Middle Ages and the Carnavalet. Despite its development, Paris had only four bridges in the sixteenth century. The Pont-Neuf, along 278 meters (one of the longest in Paris), 28 meters wide, connects the dock of the Mégisserie right bank, the rue Dauphine, left bank.
Not symmetrical, it is composed of two separate bridges, one of five arches (south side) the other seven (north), linked by a central location on the tip of the Ile de la Cite. The whole form an elegant line broken into a donkey who marries the landscape. The Pont-Neuf, never rebuilt because of its robustness, is the oldest in Paris. He inspired many painters (Callot, Carnavalet, Pissarro, Derain ...), writers (Victor Hugo, Anatole France ...) and filmmakers (the lovers du Pont-Neuf Leo Carax). The painters of the Academy Saint-Luc y sold their tables outdoors.
The restoration of the Pont-Neuf, which was packed by the American artist Christo in 1985, were completed recently.
Henri IV will be built in 1608, a water pump on the right bank to supply the district du Louvre and the Tuileries. The work of this pump, which will be named Samaritaine referring to the Gospels, will be undertaken by the Flemish Jean Lintlaer. Rebuilt in 1772, it will be destroyed in 1813 because it caused disruptions to navigation and will be replaced by larger stores that bear his name.
The equestrian statue of Henri IV will be conducted on the Pont-Neuf in 1818 by a smelter that will use the Bonapartist the bronze effigy of Desaix which trônait Place des Victoires. It will satisfy an order from Louis XVIII who wanted to replace the first equestrian statue of Paris installed in 1614, or 4 years after the death of Henri IV, then destroyed the Revolution. The early work was carried out by the founder Pierre Tasca on a model of Francis Franqueville who was a student of Jean Bologna. The new sculptor, François Lemot, hostile to the regime, allegedly concealed in his book a small statue of Napoleon and Henriade Voltaire (author hated by the monarchy because of its anti-).
Victor Baltard install in 1854, candelabra always present whose feet are decorated with heads of gods and river dolphins. The Square du Vert-Galant, located on the banks arrivals on the island of the city, occupies the site of the former island of Gourdaine.
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