Pont des Arts | Paris Travel Guide - Hotel Reservations - Restaurants

Between 1802 and 1804, a nine-arch metallic bridge for pedestrians was constructed at the location of the present day Pont des Arts: this was the first metal bridge in Paris. ... The argentinian writer, Julio Cortázar, talks about this bridge in his book “Rayuela”. When Horacio Oliveira goes with the pythia and this tells him that the bridge for La Maga is the “Ponts des Arts”. This is a great allusion of Cortázar for one of his greatest novels, even one of the best ...