Passerelle Léopold-Sédar-Senghor

About

The Léopold-Sedar-Senghor Bridge, formerly the Solferino Bridge, is a pedestrian bridge on the Seine River in Paris. It connects the port of Solferino (7th arrondissement) to the port of Tuileries (1st arrondissement).

It is named after Léopold Sédar Senghor (1906-2001), a Senegalese poet, writer and statesman.

The first bridges: For a century, the cast iron bridge, inaugurated by Napoleon III in 1861, allowed the passage of vehicles between the Anatole-France quay and the Tuileries wharf. It is built by Paul-Martin Gallocher de Lagalisserie and Jules Savarin, the engineers of the Pont des Invalides. It was the victory in June 1859 of the Battle of Solferino that gave its name to the work, the Solferino bridge, and to a street in its extension.

Fragilised (notably by impacts with barges), it was destroyed and replaced in 1961 by a steel pedestrian bridge based on two piles of concrete, built about 30 meters upstream and demolished in its turn in 1992.