The bridge Simone de Beauvoir
July 16th, 2006
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It is not every day that Paris has a new bridge. This is the 37 th.
Let me introduce to you the bridge Simone de Beauvoir. This bridge looks like a roller coaster on the photo, but it is only an optical illusion. The architect, Dietmar Feichtinger, wanted to give this bridge the curves of a women. A tribute to femimity depicted so well by Simone de Beauvoir. RFR, a Paris based team of engineers worked on the sketch design of this bridge. And guess where this bridge is leading to ? To the French National Library (Tres Grande Bibliotheque). |
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At night, the lighting comes from under the handrails. No lamp posts break the elegant lines.
15 Comments Add your own
1. Sarah | July 21st, 2006 at 7:03 am
Just a note: de Beauvoir was not married to Sartre although they were lovers/friends for most of their adult lives.
Great photos!
2. Rodney | July 26th, 2006 at 8:52 pm
Wow, nice looking bridge. I am so disappointed that I missed this bridge on my last visit to Paris in June.
3. meduz' | August 9th, 2006 at 1:21 pm
Interesting bridge. Guess some poor people without any home will be glad to can sleep under some parts of it.
4. James MKenzie-Hall | September 4th, 2006 at 9:23 pm
‘Lenticular truss bridge with penticular wed’ - does that mean it doesn’t bounce ?
5. Tomate Farcie | September 27th, 2006 at 1:07 am
Beautiful design. But I don’t recognize the area at all. Where is it?
6. Mercy | October 2nd, 2006 at 3:57 pm
these are the most beautiful photos i have ever seen. I can’t wait to go to Paris in 2007. I will want to see these places.
7. simone cockriell | October 19th, 2006 at 7:23 pm
Paris looks like a beautiful place. One day i will be there to get help with a very very old fossel i found. Paris is one of the only places that can help me discover it. I will go and see that bridge that i maybe named after
8. marlin | November 23rd, 2006 at 10:48 am
this bridge looks great, i was in Paris on 2005 and i am planning to go during this summer, and i think i will visit this great Bridge if you send me the address in details and how to go there by using the public traffic.
is there any other new things that i should see ?
thanks and best regards
9. Jerry | December 3rd, 2006 at 6:13 am
I fell and twisted my ankle on this bridge in front of half of Paris on the most beautiful day of the year!
10. Morgaine LeFaye » B&hellip | March 25th, 2007 at 3:32 pm
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11. simone | April 6th, 2007 at 8:23 pm
heyy,
i like the pics of the bridge it is awesome! also i think it’s pretty cool because my name is simone. it would be fun to walk on that bridge ! by the way sweet site!
12. Simone Severini | August 6th, 2007 at 7:40 am
It’s beautiful.
13. Sarah | April 14th, 2008 at 11:22 pm
a beautiful bridge, though i wonder how De Beauvoir would have felt about it being modeled on the curves of a woman, considering how she discussed woman as the subject and the other in her writings, it just sort of makes her the subject again!
14. Jacques | May 1st, 2008 at 7:20 pm
Perhaps RFR worked on that bridge. But it was concieved by a young austrian architect called Dichter Fechtinger who won the competition and now works in Paris. He has also conceived three footbridges for Strasbourg (now under construction).
15. Rhoi | October 8th, 2008 at 10:00 pm
To answer #5, the bridge is located on the river bank next to the French National Library.
I was there when it was still under construction and it was beautiful then, now it’s absolutely gorgeous.
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