You Just Can’t Stop Love

Paris has removed love locks from the Pont des Arts but love locking lives on

Mike Alexander
Writers On The Run
Published in
4 min readJan 18, 2020

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Pont des Arts early days Mike Alexander

Between 1802 and 1804, while Napoleon still held France in his rigid grasp, he oversaw the construction of the first iron bridge in Paris. It crossed the Seine between the Institute of France and the Louvre. After being damaged by both aerial bombardment during WW II and a couple of…

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Mike Alexander
Writers On The Run

France based freelance writer with a passion for the environment and quirky cultural history. http://mediumauthor.com/@mikealexander wordseeker46@yahoo.com