Most viewed posts & pages
-
Recent Posts
- Finding Café Momus
- The Zone
- Zinc
- Twenty questions
- Cloches et clochers
- Péniche
- Entresol
- Chambre de bonne
- Rooftops
- A view of the pandemic (so far) in five masks
- Far from the Madding Crowd
- Places of healing
- Empty streets
- A pebble for Clare
- Petite Ceinture: Ring around the city
- Reduce. Reuse. Recycle. Reconsider.
- Early one morning
- It never hurts to ask
- Art Nouveau and Aerodynamics in Auteuil
- Postcards: Little windows into a vanished Paris
- The ugliest building in Paris
- Are you sitting down?
- Avoiding the crowds in Versailles
- Stepping back into the river
- A web of friends and a ceremony in a former corset factory
What our readers think
Parisian Fields on Finding Café Momus Vicki on Finding Café Momus Parisian Fields on Finding Café Momus Fiona Murray on Finding Café Momus Linda Prinsthal on Finding Café Momus Blogroll
- Armchair Parisian
- Bldg Blog
- Bonjour Paris
- Decoding Paris
- Eat and Two Veg
- French Girl in Seattle
- French News Online
- French Today
- Girls' Guide to Paris
- Invisible Paris
- Magic Lantern Show
- Notes on the visual arts and popular culture
- One quality, the finest
- Paris (Im)perfect
- Paris and I / Paris Set Me Free
- parisinsidersguide.com
- ParisPerdu
- Part-time Parisian
- Rue Rude
- Sound Landscapes Paris
- Spotted by Locals
- Taste of France
- The Paris Blog
Tags
- Adam Roberts
- Champs Elysees
- Eiffel Tower
- Eugene Atget
- First World War
- Georges-Eugène Haussmann
- Gustave Eiffel
- Gustave Rives
- Jardin du Luxembourg
- Les Grands Magasins Dufayel
- les Halles
- Montmartre
- Montparnasse
- Napoleon
- Napoleon Bonaparte
- Napoleon III
- Parc des Buttes Chaumont
- Parc Monceau
- Paris flood
- Paris metro
- Paris postcards
- Petite Ceinture
- postcards
- Stanley Loomis
- Val de Grace
Categories
Most liked posts & pages
Archives
Tag Archives: Quai aux Fleurs
The Mystery of the Missing Suspension Bridges of Paris
In the first half of the nineteenth century, France was a world leader in the design and construction of suspension bridges. And yet today not a single one of Paris’s nineteenth-century suspension bridges over the Seine remains. Why? It was … Continue reading
Posted in Paris bridges, Paris history
Tagged Adam Roberts, Angers, Basse-Chaine Suspension Bridge, Bercy Bridge, bridge failures, engineering failures, Gustave Eiffel, Ile de la Cité, Ile Saint-Louis, Louis Joseph Vicat, Parc des Buttes Chaumont, Pont de Constantine, Pont de la Réforme, Pont Louis Philippe, Quai aux Fleurs, Quai St-Bernard, Saint André-de-Cubzac bridge, suspension bridges, Tom F. Peters
23 Comments