The Pont des Arts is a wooden pedestrian bridge between the Left Bank and the Louvre. The last time I crossed it, it was a wooden bridge across the Seine. Now look...
The idea is that you get married in an exotic city famous for l'amour and proclaim your undying love by locking a padlock on a bridge. It's done in many other places, including Luzkhov Bridge, Moscow, the Ponte Vecchio, Florence, and has been going on in southern Hungary (!) since the 1980's. The first padlocks appeared on the Pont des Arts in 2008. In 2010 the Socialist Hotel de Ville de Paris made a noise about removing the locks, but that hasn't happened yet.
Well, who cares. The light was perfect and the images are great. Someone with a good camera should do a book on the cadena's d'amour.
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