On the bridge of Jena offers one of the most Parisian types – directly at the foot of the Eiffel tower. The bridge is an unusual story: his name nearly caused its destruction.

The bridge, facing the campus Martius, was commissioned by Napoleon in 1807. The Emperor rejected the proposed name – the bridge of the Champs de Mars or Military school – in favor of the name, grishevo his vanity: the bridge of Jena. In 1806 Napoleon's troops defeated at Jena brilliant victory over the Prussian army. Day of the battle was a disaster and a disgrace to Prussia, and Napoleon, in his words, one of the happiest days of his life.

For the happy day came dark: in 1814 in Paris joined the Union forces. By this time the engineer Cornel Laman had just completed a five-arch stone bridge, ordered by the Emperor. Among the winners was the Prussian General Blucher, once participated in the battle at Jena. Seeing the bridge, named in honor of that battle, Blucher was furious and decided to blow it up. Saved the crossing only the intervention of the allies and, as the legend says, personally Louis XVIII – he allegedly said that the bridge will blow up along with. So the bridge only renamed Yes took a proud Imperial eagles decorating the tympanum. Instead, they established a Royal l

However, in France of the XVIII– XIX centuries, the situation changed quickly. After the revolution of 1830 the bridge has returned the historic name, and after his accession to the throne of Napoleon III in 1852 – eagles. In 1853, at the entrances to the bridge were four sculptures – Gallic, Roman, Arabic and Greek warriors. Dismounted riders are powerful pylons near their horses and look very monumental, from a distance resembles klodtovskimi horses on the Anichkov bridge in St. Petersburg. All the warriors were made by different sculptors Auguste Préaux, Louis-Joseph House, Jean-Jacques Fesch and Francois Devaux.

The steps leading from the bridge to the embankment, known among movie fans as "stairway Renault: it is for him in the movie "View to a kill was riding down a taxi-Reno, stolen by James bond in pursuit of a killer.