EARLY 1860's STEREOVIEW STATUE OF CITY OF PARIS PONT DU CARROUSEL PARIS FR by HJ

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Photographs throughout Ad:Offered for auction is an early Square Cornered stereoview Photographed by H. J. a Paris (Hippolyte Jouvin). Jouvin was active from the 1860' to 1875. The Stereoview is from the set "VUE INSTANTANEE DE PARIS" or translated to English "INSTANTANEOUS VIEW OF PARIS" The stereoview is titled on the back as follows -- --NO. 22 STATUE DE LA VILLE DE PARIS AU PONT DU CARROUSEL- or translated to English "STATUE OF THE CITY OF PARIS AT THE PONT DU CARROUSEL" -- PARIS, FRANCE --The photograph was taken while the traffic in the area was in motion. An instantaneous view of the area in the early 1860's.Begun in 1831 in the prolongation of the rue des Saints-Pères on the Left Bank, the original bridge was known under that name until its inauguration, in 1834, when king Louis-Philippe named it Pont du Carrousel, because it opened on the Right Bank river frontage of the Palais du Louvre near the Arc de Triomphe du Carrousel in front of the Tuileries.The bridge's architect, Antoine-Rémy Polonceau, succeeded in a design that was innovative in several aspects. For one thing, the new structure was an arch bridge, during a period when most bridge construction had turned to suspension bridges; the necessary towers and cables would have been considered unacceptable additions to the Parisian scenery. The structure combined the read more

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