Pedestrian bridge Simone de Beauvoir - one of the new bridges of Paris. Soaring above the loaded embankments, he gives pedestrians and cyclists from the square in front of the National Library of France, right in the park of Bercy.

With this bridge got an interesting story. When in 1998 the architect Dietmar Feichtinger won the tender for construction of a new crossing of the Seine, the bridge had a code name - Bercy-Tolbiak. Feichtinger came up with an elegant, delicate design. Odnoprolёtny bridge looks amazing - as if the two arcs are joined lenticular wave and stand up on the Seine.

The central span of the bridge, this is the "lens", was made of steel in Alsace. He weighed 650 tons, was 106 meters long and 12 wide. The main part of the bridge were taken to Paris by the North Sea, the English Channel, then on French rivers - slow, difficult, some gates were too narrow for him. Long barge solemnly brought up "lens" to the destination, and by that time the mayor of Paris has proposed to name the bridge name of the writer and philosopher Simone de Beauvoir. In 2006, the bridge was inaugurated in the presence of a foster daughter Simone - Sylvie Le Bon de Beauvoir.

It turned out funny - bridge with soft, rounded, feminine forms named in honor of the ideologist of the feminist movement, women of high intellect cold, uncompromising, tough. The name looks like a mistake. But you can look the other way.

The bridge length of 304 meters as if in one breath flew from coast to coast. Two arc - a two-level bridge, with the top offers panoramic views of the historic Paris, on the ground next to the river water glistens. On the one hand - the repository of knowledge, on the other - the nature, around the beauty and freedom. Could Simone de Beauvoir to be against?