An unnamed bridge!
The Pont Louis-Philippe connects the Quai de Bourbon, on the Ile Saint Louis, to the Quai de l’Hôtel de Ville, on the Rive Droite – Right Bank of the Seine.
Its construction was initiated by King Louis-Philippe, who laid the first stone of a wooden suspension bridge on July 29, 1833, to celebrate his accession to the throne after the Revolution of 1830.
The suspension bridge, which initially had no name, was opened to traffic on July 26, 1834. Designed by the architects Séguin brothers, it spanned the Seine slightly downstream from the current Louis-Philippe Bridge and had a tollhouse at each end.
The bridge and the tollhouses were burned down during the 1848 revolution. It was completely restored and renamed Pont de la Réforme (Reformation Bridge), a name it retained until 1852.
However, this bridge became insufficient to accommodate the increased traffic and was replaced in 1860 with the current bridge.
Pont Louis-Philippe – Ile Saint-Louis
Engineers Romany and Savarin constructed the current three-arched bridge slightly upstream from its predecessor.
The 32-metres-long central arch, 32 is flanked by two secondary arches, each 30 metres long.
The piers are finely sculpted and adorned with garlands of foliage surrounding central metal rosettes.
The Pont Louis-Philippe was inaugurated in August 1862 and leads to Rue du Pont Louis-Philippe, a street opened a few months after its completion.
Metro: Pont-Marie on Line 7
Coordinates: Lat 48.853754 – Long 2.354315
