On the bridge of Jena it offers one of the most Parisian of species - right at the foot of the Eiffel Tower. The bridge unusual history: its name almost led to his destruction.

Bridge overlooking the Champ de Mars, Napoleon ordered the construction in 1807. The Emperor rejected the proposed names - a bridge or the Champs de Mars Military Academy - in favor of the name, warming themselves his vanity: Bridge of Jena. In 1806, Napoleon's troops at Jena won a brilliant victory over the Prussian army. The day turned out to be a disaster, and the battle for the shame of Prussia and Napoleon, he said, one of the happiest days of his life.

For the happy days came the black: in 1814 in Paris, entered the allied forces. By this time, engineer Cornel Laman just finished building a stone bridge pyatiarochny ordered by the emperor. Among the winners was the Prussian General Blucher, once took part in the battle of Jena. Seeing the bridge named in honor of the battle, Blucher was furious and planned to blow it up. Saved crossing only the intervention of the Allies and, according to legend, himself Louis XVIII - he allegedly said that the bridge will blow only with him. Since the bridge was renamed only removed so proud imperial eagles that adorned cymbals. Instead, they set the royal letter L.

However, in France XVIII- XIX centuries, the situation changed rapidly. After the revolution of 1830 returned the historic name of the bridge, and after the accession to the throne of Napoleon III in 1852 - eagles. In 1853, at the entrance to the bridge set four sculptures - Gallic, Roman, Arabic and Greek warriors. Dismounted Riders are on powerful pylons near their horses, and look quite monumental, with a distance resemble klodtovskih horses on the Anichkov Bridge in St. Petersburg. All soldiers are made by different sculptors - Auguste Préaux, Indre, Louis-Joseph House, Jean-Jacques and Francois Feshe Devo.

The steps leading from the bridge to the embankment, known among movie buffs as "ladder reno": it is for him in the film "View to a Kill" galloping down a taxi Reno hijacked James Bond in pursuit of the killer.