super 8 – France – Bateaux Mouches excursion – Paris – 1979 – part 3/3
saved and scanned by Grandmarquis – please ask for any use
no sound, music provided by youtube
00:02 Pont Marie
00:11 Pont Louis Philippe
00:26 Conciergerie
01:05 Pont Neuf
01:12 equestrian statue of Henry IV
01:16 Institut de France & Pont des Arts
01:39 Gare d’Orsay now Musée d’Orsay
01:54 Pont Neuf
02:12 Pont Alexandre III & Eiffel Tower
00:02 Pont Marie
The Pont Marie is a historic stone arch bridge built between 1614 and 1635, connecting Île Saint‑Louis with the Right Bank.
00:11 Pont Louis Philippe
The current Pont Louis‑Philippe dates from its reconstruction between 1860 and 1862, replacing an earlier suspension bridge destroyed during the Revolution of 1848.
00:26 Conciergerie
By 1979, the Conciergerie was already open to visitors as a museum since 1914.
01:05 / 01:54 Pont Neuf
The Pont Neuf, the oldest bridge over the Seine, was inaugurated in 1607 under Henri IV.
Christo and Jeanne-Claude began preparations for their famous artistic project: the “wrapping of the Pont Neuf”, which was finally completed in 1985. The idea was conceived as early as 1975, but the administrative and artistic procedures intensified in 1979.
01:12 equestrian statue of Henry IV
The original bronze statue, commissioned by Marie de Médicis and created by Pietro Tacca, was installed in 1614 but destroyed during the French Revolution in 1792. Its current incarnation, sculpted by François‑Frédéric Lemot, was inaugurated in 1818, using bronze from other melted statues and inspired by surviving casts of the original
01:16 Institut de France
The building, originally the Collège des Quatre-Nations, was constructed between 1662 and 1688 by Louis Le Vau and later became home to the Institut de France in 1795.
01:16 Pont des Arts
01:31 In 1979, a barge collision caused a partial collapse, destroying roughly 60 meters—a significant portion of the original span.
The original iron footbridge — built between 1802 and 1804 and featuring nine elegant arches with planted railings — was in place by 1979.
By 1975, the bridge had been declared a French national historic monument.
01:39 Gare d’Orsay now Musée d’Orsay
In 1979, the building that would become the Musée d’Orsay was still the former Gare d’Orsay, a disused railway station. It had ceased functioning as a passenger terminal in 1939 and was mostly empty by the 1960s. Although threatened with demolition, it gained legal protection as a historic monument in 1978.
That year also saw the start of structural conversion work: engineers began constructing a tunnel for the future RER Line C, and the adjacent Quai d’Orsay underground station opened in September 1979.
While restoration and renovation began in 1979, the museum interior did not open until December 1986.
02:12 Pont Alexandre III
The Pont Alexandre III was constructed between 1896 and 1900 for the Exposition Universelle of 1900, to symbolize Franco‑Russian friendship.
Classified as a Monument Historique since 1975.
https://grandmarquis.ch/
https://www.instagram.com/grandmarquis_films/
No 1093
#paris #1979 #pontneuf #PontAlexandreIII #garedorsay #museedorsay #conciergerie #InstitutdeFrance #pontalexandreIII #PontLouisPhilippe #pontmarie