Pont de Saint-Cloud, Metal bridge across Seine River between Boulogne-Billancourt and Saint-Cloud, France
The Pont de Saint-Cloud is a metal bridge whose single-piece deck, with pale green copper fascias, crosses the Seine in one span. It rests on six rows of cylindrical reinforced concrete piers, and two yellow diamond-shaped signs are mounted on the deck edge. The bridge links Boulogne-Billancourt and Saint-Cloud, carrying the RD 907.
The first bridge here is recorded in 841, during a conflict between Charles the Bald and Lothair I; it was a wooden structure carrying mills. Henri II replaced it in 1556 with a stone bridge of eleven arches, demolished during the Second Fronde. Napoleon ordered repairs in 1808, and the metal deck on six rows of reinforced concrete columns dates from the 1940 reconstruction.
Tradition held that no king of France could cross the bridge without sudden death, so sovereigns crossed the Seine by boat; François I's funeral convoy passed over it, ending the custom. Alfred Sisley painted Le Pont de Saint-Cloud in 1877, and from 1958 to 1965 sculptor Geneviève Pezet kept her studio on a barge moored at the bridge.
The bridge carries the RD 907 between avenue du Maréchal-de-Lattre-de-Tassigny in Boulogne-Billancourt and place Georges-Clemenceau in Saint-Cloud. Underground passages on both banks let pedestrians reach the quays without crossing the deck. The Boulogne–Pont de Saint-Cloud station, western terminus of metro Line 10, opened on 2 October 1981.
The deck is a single metal span with copper cladding by Raymond Subes, resting on six rows of reinforced concrete columns. The painter Geneviève Pezet kept her studio from 1958 to 1965 in a barge moored at the bridge. A 2007 count recorded 34,745 vehicles per day.
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