Pont du Carrousel
The Pont du Carrousel is a bridge in Paris, which spans the River Seine between the Quai des Tuileries and the Quai Voltaire.
The old bridge (1834) in this place was too narrow for twentieth-century traffic, and shifted alarmingly. In 1930, its height above the river was judged insufficient for river transportation, and it was decided to scrap it for an entirely new structure to be built a few tens of metres downstream from the former one, and with greater headroom on the river. The architects Malet and Lang attempted to respect the former aspect, which now had become familiar to Parisians. The new bridge of reinforced concrete crosses the river in three arches (like the original bridge did) reaching the right bank in front of the Louvre, in direct line with the Arc de Triomphe du Carrousel.
Sculptures by Louis Petitot representing Abundance, Industry, the Seine and the City of Paris stand on the corners.
For its lighting at night, the iron craftsman Raymond Subes conceived an ingenious telescoping system that raised the streetlights from a height of 13 metres in the daytime to 20 metres at nightfall when they were lit; however, the system was too fragile to be of any use and did not function until it was repaired in 1999.
Louvre: Around 1600, during the reign of Henri IV, the wall along the river was replaced with the Grande Galerie, which later was the first part of the Louvre to become a museum. The Pavillon de Flore (originally constructed in 1607–1610) was entirely redesigned and rebuilt by Hector Lefuel in 1864–1868 in a highly decorated Second Empire Neo-Baroque style.
Paris, 2016
Pont du Carrousel
The Pont du Carrousel is a bridge in Paris, which spans the River Seine between the Quai des Tuileries and the Quai Voltaire.
The old bridge (1834) in this place was too narrow for twentieth-century traffic, and shifted alarmingly. In 1930, its height above the river was judged insufficient for river transportation, and it was decided to scrap it for an entirely new structure to be built a few tens of metres downstream from the former one, and with greater headroom on the river. The architects Malet and Lang attempted to respect the former aspect, which now had become familiar to Parisians. The new bridge of reinforced concrete crosses the river in three arches (like the original bridge did) reaching the right bank in front of the Louvre, in direct line with the Arc de Triomphe du Carrousel.
Sculptures by Louis Petitot representing Abundance, Industry, the Seine and the City of Paris stand on the corners.
For its lighting at night, the iron craftsman Raymond Subes conceived an ingenious telescoping system that raised the streetlights from a height of 13 metres in the daytime to 20 metres at nightfall when they were lit; however, the system was too fragile to be of any use and did not function until it was repaired in 1999.
Louvre: Around 1600, during the reign of Henri IV, the wall along the river was replaced with the Grande Galerie, which later was the first part of the Louvre to become a museum. The Pavillon de Flore (originally constructed in 1607–1610) was entirely redesigned and rebuilt by Hector Lefuel in 1864–1868 in a highly decorated Second Empire Neo-Baroque style.
Paris, 2016