Passerelle Simone-de-Beauvoir
The Passerelle Simone de Beauvoir pedestrian footbridge is an over the Seine in Paris, connecting the 12th to the 13th arrondissement ( Tolbiac ). It was inaugurated as thirty-seventh Parisian bridge over the Seine, at the same time as the fifth pedestrian footbridge, on 13 July 2006. The narrow bridge connects the east of the city, located between the Pont de Bercy and the Pont de Tolbiac, the two eponymous district of Paris, which are characterized by the construction of the French National Library and the opposite Bercy Park.
Originally called " passerelle Bercy - Tolbiac " planned, bears the bridge since its inauguration, the name of the French writer Simone de Beauvoir. Thus, a woman's name for a bridge was awarded in Paris for the first time.
This is a 12 -meter wide and 304 m long and partly two-storey bridge in a combination of arch and suspension bridge that leads to a single swing without buttresses over the Seine. The two-storey allows the connection of different levels of promenade and shore road. Architect is a native of Austria and since 1989 acting in France Dietmar Feichtinger. The structural design was carried out by the Office RFR, which is among other things responsible for the structural design of the Louvre Pyramid.