Mirabeau Bridge

The Mirabeau Bridge (173 m long, 20 m wide) was built between 1893 and 1896. It honors the writer and tribune of the French Revolution, Honoré-Gabriel Riquetti de Mirabeau (1749-1791). It has been listed as a Monument Historique since 1975.

It's a triple-articulated steel structure, with three steel spans, a central one of 93 meters and two lateral ones of 32.4 meters each. Its pier spouts are decorated with four bronze sculptures by sculptor Jean-Antoine Injalbert (1845-1933), representing the City of Paris, Commerce, Navigation and Abundance.

A plaque on the wall of the Pont Mirabeau in the 16th arrondissement of Paris features the first lines of Guillaume Apollinaire's (1880-1918) poem Le Pont Mirabeau, published in 1913 in his collection Alcools.
This collection deals with the disappearance of love with the passage of time, whose metaphor is the flow of the Seine under the Mirabeau Bridge in Paris.

Under the Mirabeau Bridge flows the Seine
Et nos amours Faut-il m'en souvienne
Joy always came after sorrow
Vienne la nuit sonne l'heure
Days go by, I remain

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