The Pont de Sully (or Pont Sully; ) is a

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across the

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Paris, France Paris () is the Capital city, capital and List of communes in France with over 20,000 inhabitants, most populous city of France, with an estimated population of 2,165,423 residents in 2019 in an area of more than 105 km² (41 sq mi), ma ...

. In reality two separate bridges, carrying the Boulevard Henri IV, which meet on the eastern tip of the

Île Saint-Louis Île Saint-Louis (), in size, is one of two natural islands in the Seine river, in Paris, France (the other natural island is the Île de la Cité, where Notre-Dame de Paris is located). Île Saint-Louis is connected to the rest of Paris by ...

in the

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. The northern part links the island to the rest of the 4th arrondissement on the

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, while the southern part links the island to the

Boulevard Saint-Germain Boulevard Saint-Germain () is a major street in Paris on the Rive Gauche of the Seine. It curves in a 3.5-kilometre (2.1 miles) arc from the Pont de Sully in the east (the bridge at the edge of Île Saint-Louis) to the Pont de la Concorde ( ...

in the

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on the

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. The nearest

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station is Sully – Morland, located on the Right Bank.

History

The current bridge replaced two pedestrian

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, which had been lost. One, the Passerelle Damiette, linked the island to the Right Bank, and the other, the Passerelle de Constantine, linked the island to the Left Bank. The construction of the pedestrian bridges was authorized by an act of 18 June 1836, in favor of M. de Beaumont, the projector, who would recoup his expenses, valued at 380.000 fr., by collecting tolls. They were constructed by the engineer Surville and opened in January 1838. The Passerelle Damiette was destroyed in the

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, while the Passerelle de Constantine collapsed in 1872 owing to corrosion in its cables.Constantine Footbridge, http://en.structurae.de/structures/data/index.cfm?id=s0032321 The current bridge was constructed in 1876, as part of

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; it opened on 25 August 1877. It is named in honour of Maximilien de Béthune, duke of Sully (1560–1641) and minister to Henry IV. It was designed by the engineers Paul Vaudrey and Gustave Brosselin. They set it at an angle of about 45 degrees to the river banks, which means that it gives a splendid view over the quais of the

and Notre-Dame. The southern part consists of three

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arches, while the northern part, over the narrower arm of the river, consists of a central 42-metre arch in cast iron and two 15-metre arches in

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. File:Passerelle de Constantine 1872.jpg, The collapse of the pedestrian bridge, 1872 File:Pont de Sully @ Île Saint-Louis @ Paris (24945562739).jpg, The southern part from the west File:France Paris Pont de Sully.JPG, The northern part from the west

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Site of the Mairie de Paris
* — Left Bank bridge * — Right Bank bridge
Aerial view on Google Maps
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History

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