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.

On a plaque on the wall of the bridge in the 16th arrondissement of Paris are engraved the first lines of a poem by Guillaume Apollinaire (1880-1918), 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.

"Sous le pont Mirabeau coule la 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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