Talk:Pont du Carrousel

fr:Affaire Brahim Bouarram
Some stuff here. Anybody for a single article. Merci Mike Coppolano (talk) 12:47, 7 January 2012 (UTC)


 * Bouarram was not "thrown from the bridge", but rather pushed/thrown from a bank of the Seine near the Pont du Carrousel. Some sources (in french) include l'Express newspaper from 30/04/1998, Libération from 16/05/1998. See also the article in the french wikipedia.128.178.241.171 (talk) 14:14, 1 May 2012 (UTC)

Graduated cast-iron circular supports
Did Antoine Rémy Polonceau invent the use of "graduated [cast-iron] circular supports"? I've seen several other bridges from the Victorian era that also incorporate "graduated circular supports", but don't know whether these are all of cast iron, or whether any of them predate Polonceau's work.

Another bridge, the Pont Saint-Thomas, following the same design pattern, but using only one arch, was built a decade later in Strasbourg, Alsace-Lorraine. The French Wikipedia article on this bridge has some excellent and clear photos (probably on WikiMedia) illustrating details of the construction. These show the circular supports each linked to the next by a straight member, which I don't recall noticing on the other bridges I've seen, presumably to help keep the supports in line.

For those who can't read the French, it would be good to have some of this French Wikipedia material on Polonceau and his bridges also available in English. yoyo (talk) 23:03, 2 November 2020 (UTC)