Showing posts with label Le Havre. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Le Havre. Show all posts

09 October 2025

François le Chevalier Footbridge over the Bassin du Comerce in Le Havre, Seine Maritime (France)

 
“Le Havre-de-Grâce lay cornered by the Atlantic and the river Seine. A humble city, low and flat, and unremarkable save for its cathedral; its minaret overlooked the port like an artificial moon scaffolded into the sky.”

From the book Fiddler's Green
by A.S. Peterson

28 January 2025

Pont de Normandie spanning the Seine River between Le Havre (Seine Maritime) and Honfleur (Calvados) in France


"Without this risk-taking, bridges would not exist and undoubtedly the face of Normandy would have been different!"

Vianney de Chalus,
Président de la CCI du Havre

07 October 2015

Pont de Normandie over the Seine River between Le Havre and Honfleur (France)

J'ai vu les champs de l'Helvétie,
Et ses chalets et ses glaciers ;
J'ai vu le ciel de l'Italie,
Et Venise et ses gondoliers.
En saluant chaque patrie,
Je me disais : aucun séjour
N'est plus beau que ma Normandie !
C'est le pays qui m'a donné le jour.


From Ma Normandie
Song by Fredéric Bérat

LONGEST CABLE-STAYED BRIDGE IN THE WORLD FROM 1995 TO 1999