Pedestrian bridge Simone de Beauvoir is one of the new Parisian bridges. Soaring over loaded embankments, he leads pedestrians and cyclists from the square in front of the National library of France right in the Bercy Park.

This bridge was an interesting story. When in 1998 the architect Dietmar Feichtinger won the tender for the construction of a new crossing over the Seine, the bridge had a code name – Bercy TOLBIAC. Feichtinger invented an elegant, graceful design. Single-span bridge looks amazing – as if two arcs are connected ontoprise and wave standing over Cena.

The Central span of the bridge, this is the "lens" was made of steel in Alsace. It weighed 650 tons, was 106 meters in length and 12 in width. The main part of the bridge was transported to Paris through the North sea, the English channel, then along the French rivers – slow, difficult, some of the locks were too narrow. Long barge solemnly brought up the "lens" to the destination, and by that time, the mayor of Paris has proposed to name the bridge the name of the writer and philosopher Simone de Beauvoir. In 2006, the bridge was inaugurated in the presence of a foster daughter Simona, Sylvia Le Bon-de Beauvoir.

It turned out funny – bridge with soft, rounded, feminine shapes named in honor of visionary feminist movement, women high cold intellect, uncompromising, hard. The name is a fault. But you can look the other way.

The bridge length of 304 meters as if in one breath flies from shore to shore. Two arcs are two-level bridge, with the top offers panoramic views of historic Paris, near the bottom shines the river water. On the one hand – the knowledge vault, on the other – nature, about beauty and freedom. Could Simone de Beauvoir?