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The Pont Neuf (French pronunciation: [pɔ̃ nœf], "New Bridge") is the oldest standing bridge across the river Seine in Paris, France.It stands by the western (downstream) point of the Île de la Cité, the island in the middle of the river that was, between 250 and 225 BCE, the birthplace of Paris, then known as Lutetia and, during the medieval period, the heart of the city.
The Pont Neuf (French pronunciation: [pɔ̃ nœf]), French for "New Bridge" (a.k.a. Pont de Pierre [pɔ̃ də pjɛʁ] and Grand Pont [ɡʁɑ̃ pɔ̃]), [1] is a bridge from the 16th and 17th centuries in Toulouse, in the South of France.
Pont Neuf (crossing the west corner of the Île de la Cité, Paris's oldest bridge, built between 1578 and 1607) Pont au Change (between the Rive Droite and the Île de la Cité) Pont Saint-Michel (between the Île de la Cité and the Rive Gauche) Pont Notre-Dame (between the Rive Droite and the Île de la Cité)
The Pont Neuf is the oldest standing bridge across the river Seine in Paris, France.It was completed in 1607 by Henry IV.In 1867, French painters Claude Monet and Renoir first depicted the bridge in their series of riverbank paintings, returning to the subject again in 1872. [2]
Thérèse and Madame Raquin set up shop in the Passage du Pont Neuf to support Camille while he searches for a job. He eventually starts working for the Orléans Railway Company, where he runs into a childhood friend, Laurent. Laurent visits the Raquins and, while painting a portrait of Camille, contemplates an affair with the lonely Thérèse ...
Pont Notre-Dame (between the Île de la Cité and the rive droite) Pont Saint-Michel (between the Rive Gauche and the Île de la Cité) Pont au Change (between the Île de la Cité and the Rive Droite) Pont Neuf (crossing the west corner of the Île de la Cité, Paris's oldest bridge, built between 1578 and 1607) Passerelle des Arts (pedestrian)
From the "square", actually triangular in shape, one can access the middle of the Pont Neuf, a bridge which connects the left and right banks of the Seine by passing over the Île de la Cité. A street called, since 1948, Rue Henri-Robert, forty metres long, connects the Place Dauphine and the bridge.
Pont Neuf: Oldest bridge over the Seine river in Paris Paris, Banks of the Seine ... Le pont en France avant le temps des ingénieurs (in French). Paris. p. 304.