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This is a list of bridges 1 through 100 (of 383 total) from the suspension bridge inventory for the country France. Wherever you see a blue dot blue dot you can click it to isolate the bridge on its own page. Click here to go to the list of countries.

Isolate1822 (footbridge)
Use:Footbridge
Status:Removed
Main cables:Wire (iron)
Suspended spans:1
Main span:18m
  • Notes
    • Test structure, but recognized as first wire bridge in France.
Isolate1824 Galaure
Status:Collapsed, 1844
Main cables:Wire (iron)
Suspended spans:1
Main span:30m
Isolate1825 Tain-Tournon
Use:Vehicular
Status:Removed, 1965
Main cables:Wire (iron)
Suspended spans:2
Main spans:2 x 278.88f
Deck width:13.75f
Isolate1826 Invalides
Use:Vehicular
Status:Demolished, 1826
Main span:557.5f
  • Notes
    • Failed when almost complete in 1826. MOS: "On the 6th of September, a water-pipe, which was laid in the ground on the side of the Champs Elysées, and came near the abutments on that side of the river, burst, and, softening the ground about the abutment, it gave way under the strain produced by the weight of the bridge."
    • Replaced by 1829 Invalides (l'Allee-d'Antin) - Paris, France.
Isolate1826 Jarnac
Use:Vehicular
Status:Removed
Main cables:Chain (iron)
Suspended spans:1
Main span:70m
Deck width:7.75m
Isolate1827 Andance
Location:N 45.242194 E 4.801638
Maps:MapQuest, Acme
Use:Vehicular (one-lane)
Status:In use (last checked, 2005)
Main cables:Wire (iron)
Suspended spans:2
Main spans:2
  • Notes
    • Destroyed August 30, 1944. Rebuilt 1946.
Isolate1827 L'île Barbe
Location:N 45.796883 E 4.83055
Maps:MapQuest, Acme
Use:Vehicular (one-lane)
Status:In use (last checked, 2005)
Main cables:Chain (iron)
Suspended spans:2
Main spans:2 x 334.66f
Isolate1828 Arcole (de la Grève)
Status:Replaced, 1854
Main cables:Wire (iron)
Suspended spans:2
Main spans:2 x 133.86f
Deck width:11.48f
Isolate1828 Auvers
Status:Failed, 1887
  • Notes
    • Destroyed 1870. Rebuilt 1873.
Isolate1828 Doux
Status:Removed, 1857
Isolate1828 Sablons
Use:Vehicular
Status:Replaced, 1933
Main cables:Wire (iron)
Main spans:2 x 331.38f
Deck width:13.12f
Isolate1828 Sassenage
Status:Replaced, 1938
Main cables:Chain (iron)
Suspended spans:1
Isolate1829 Argentat
Use:Vehicular (with walkway)
Status:Replaced, 1903
Main cables:Wire (iron)
Suspended spans:1
Main span:328f
Isolate1829 Beaucaire
Status:Removed
Main cables:Wire (iron)
Suspended spans:4
Main spans:2 x 393.72f
Side spans:2 x 307.1f
  • Notes
    • Flooring failed, 1887.
Isolate1829 Invalides (l'Allee-d'Antin)
Use:Vehicular (with walkway)
Status:Replaced, 1855
Main cables:Chain (iron)
Main span:236.5f
Deck width:25.6f
Isolate1829 Palais de Justice
Use:Vehicular
Status:Replaced, 1972
Main cables:Wire (iron)
  • Notes
    • Damaged by flood, 1840. Rebuilt. Bombed, 1944. Repaired, 1945. Location now occupied by a cable-stayed suspension footbridge, completed 1986.
Isolate1829 Vienne
Location:N 45.524867 E 4.87035
Maps:MapQuest, Acme
Use:Vehicular (one-lane)
Status:In use, but restricted to foot traffic (last checked, 2005)
Main cables:Wire (iron)
Suspended spans:2
Main spans:2
  • Notes
    • Damaged by flood in 1840. Rebuilt.
Isolate1830 Bourg-Saint-Andéol
Use:Vehicular
Status:Destroyed, 1944
Main cables:Wire (iron)
Isolate1830 Feurs
Use:Vehicular
Status:Replaced, 1926
Main cables:Wire (iron)
Suspended spans:2
Isolate1830 Fourques
Location:N 43.688722 E 4.613472
Maps:MapQuest, Acme
Use:Vehicular (one-lane)
Status:In use (last checked, 2005)
Main cables:Wire (iron)
Suspended spans:2
Main spans:2
Isolate1830 Parentignat (Orbeil)
Use:Vehicular (one-lane)
Status:Closed (last checked, 2006)
Main cables:Wire (iron)
Suspended spans:1
Main span:98.4m
  • Notes
    • Bypassed, 1973.
Isolate1830 Remoulins
Location:N 43.936944 E 4.557333
Maps:MapQuest, Acme
Use:Vehicular
Status:Only towers remain, 1938 (last checked, 2002)
Main cables:Wire (iron)
Suspended spans:1
Main span:120m
  • Notes
    • Demolished, 1938. Only towers remain.
Isolate1830 Valence aux Granges
Use:Vehicular
Main cables:Wire (iron)
Suspended spans:2
Main spans:2 x 110m
Deck width:7m
  • Notes
    • Two side spans meeting at a single midstream tower.
Isolate1831 Andrézieux
Use:Vehicular
Status:Replaced, 1910
Main cables:Wire (iron)
Isolate1831 Beauregard
Location:N 46.002033 E 4.749783
Maps:MapQuest, Acme
Use:Vehicular (one-lane)
Status:In use (last checked, 2005)
Main cables:Wire (iron)
Suspended spans:2
Main spans:2
Isolate1831 Belleville (Belleville-sur-Saône)
Use:Vehicular
Suspended spans:2
Main spans:2
Isolate1831 Bry-sur-Marne
Use:Vehicular
Status:Destroyed, c.1870
Main cables:Wire (iron)
Suspended spans:1
Main span:249.43f
Isolate1831 Condrieu
Use:Vehicular
Status:Replaced
Main cables:Wire (iron)
Suspended spans:2
Main spans:2
Isolate1831 Decize
Use:Vehicular
Status:Replaced, 1904
Main cables:Wire (iron)
Suspended spans:2
Main spans:2
Isolate1831 La Feuillée
Use:Vehicular (with walkway)
Status:Demolished, 1910
Main cables:Wire (iron)
Suspended spans:1
Main span:~67m
Deck width:7m
Isolate1831 Langon
Main cables:Wire (iron)
Isolate1831 Masaryk (Masarik, Mazarik, de la Gare)
Location:N 45.778267 E 4.809017
Maps:MapQuest, Acme
Use:Vehicular (one-lane, with walkway)
Status:In use (last checked, 2005)
Main cables:Wire (iron)
Suspended spans:2
Main spans:2 x 85.2m
Deck width:6.5m
Isolate1831 Mirabeau
Location:N 43.68945 E 5.668267
Maps:MapQuest, Acme
Use:Vehicular
Status:Only towers remain (last checked, 2005)
Suspended spans:1
Main span:150m
Deck width:5.5m
  • Notes
    • The towers from the older of the two Mirabeau suspension bridges are visible alongside the current crossing.
    • Damaged by flood, 1843. Rebuilt.
    • Replaced by 1935 Mirabeau - Mirabeau, France. Unsure if this was an immediate replacement.
Isolate1832 Bercy
Use:Vehicular (with walkway)
Status:Replaced, 1860's
Main cables:Eyebar (iron)
Suspended spans:3
Main span:144.36f
Side spans:2 x 147.64f
Deck width:26.25f
Isolate1832 L'Ile-Bouchard
Use:Vehicular (one-lane, with walkway)
Status:Destroyed, 1944
Main cables:Wire (iron)
Suspended spans:2
Main spans:262.48f, 278.89f
Deck width:13.12f
  • Notes
    • AAJ describes this as two bridges separated by the island: one between Saint-Gilles and the island and one between the island and Saint-Maurice.
Isolate1832 La Roche-Posay (La Roche-Posay-les-Bains)
Use:Vehicular
Status:Replaced, 1937
Main cables:Wire (iron)
Suspended spans:1
Isolate1832 Les Vans
Use:Vehicular
Status:Removed
Suspended spans:1
Isolate1832 Neuville-sur-Saône
Use:Vehicular
Status:Removed
Suspended spans:2
Main spans:2
Isolate1832 Saint-Jean-de-Blaignac
Use:Vehicular
Main cables:Wire (iron)
Isolate1832 Saint-Vincent
Location:N 45.767583 E 4.827983
Maps:MapQuest, Acme
Use:Footbridge
Status:In use (last checked, 2005)
Main cables:Wire (iron)
Suspended spans:1
Isolate1832 Vals-les-bains
Use:Vehicular
Main cables:Wire (iron)
  • Notes
    • AAJ notes the contract was let in late 1831 and guesses at 1833 as the year of completion. 1832 is more likely given the rate at which these early iron wire French bridges were constructed.
Isolate1833 Chauvigny
Use:Vehicular
Status:Removed
Main cables:Wire (iron)
Main span:246.08f
Deck width:14.44f
Isolate1833 Collias (Louis-Philippe)
Isolate1833 Cosne-sur-Loire
Use:Vehicular
Status:Replaced, 1928
Main cables:Chain (iron)
Isolate1833 Coubon
Use:Vehicular
Status:Destroyed, 1866
Main cables:Wire (iron)
Suspended spans:1
Isolate1833 La Sône
Use:Vehicular (with walkway)
Main cables:Wire (iron)
Main span:301.85f
Deck width:14.76f
Isolate1833 Longues
Use:Vehicular
Status:Replaced
Main cables:Chain (iron)
Suspended spans:1
Main span:328.1f
Deck width:14.11
  • Notes
    • AAJ notes that this bridge collapsed during load testing, 1832. Another accident occurred when a hanger failed, December 6, 1832. The bridge opened February 1, 1833.
    • This is likely the same bridge sometimes attributed to nearby Vic-le-Comte.
Isolate1833 Saint-Just-sur-Loire
Use:Vehicular
Suspended spans:1
Isolate1833 Tonneins
Use:Vehicular
Main cables:Wire (iron)
Isolate1833 Vichy
Use:Vehicular
Status:Replaced, 1870
Isolate1834 Canada
Use:Vehicular
Status:Demolished, 1886
Main cables:Wire (iron)
Suspended spans:1
Main span:100m
Isolate1834 Digoin
Use:Vehicular
Status:Replaced, 1907
Main cables:Wire (iron)
Isolate1834 Jargeau (St-Denis de l'Hotel)
Use:Vehicular
Status:Destroyed, 1940
Main cables:Chain (iron)
Main spans:5 x 54m
Isolate1834 Lamothe
Use:Vehicular
Main cables:Wire (iron)
Isolate1834 Loubéjac
Isolate1834 Louis-Philippe (de la Reforme)
Use:Vehicular (one-lane, with walkway)
Status:Replaced
Main cables:Wire (iron)
Suspended spans:2
Main spans:2
Deck width:14.44f
  • Notes
    • Badly damaged by fire 1848. Replaced 1860 (or soon after).
Isolate1834 Pontoise
Use:Vehicular (one-lane, with walkway)
Suspended spans:1
Main span:164.05f
Deck width:14.44f
Isolate1834 Port-Sainte-Marie
Use:Vehicular
Status:Replaced, 1899
Suspended spans:1
Main span:656.2f
Deck width:14.44f
Isolate1834 Saint Francois
Use:Footbridge
Status:In use
Main cables:Wire (iron)
Suspended spans:1
Main span:71.2m
Isolate1834 Saint-Thibault
Use:Vehicular (one-lane)
Status:Replaced, 1934
Main cables:Chain (iron)
Suspended spans:5
Deck width:14.44f
Isolate1835 Chasse (Givors)
Location:N 45.581666 E 4.780083
Maps:MapQuest, Acme
Use:Vehicular (one-lane)
Status:In use (last checked, 2005)
Main cables:Wire (iron)
Suspended spans:3
Main span:1
Side spans:2
  • Notes
    • Cables and deck appear to have been replaced (at least once).
    • AAJ describes an accident in 1836: "...some of the iron-work, which was faulty, gave way and the platform fell into the river. Six persons were drowned."
Isolate1835 La Réole
Use:Vehicular
Suspended spans:1
  • Notes
    • AAJ guesses this bridge was completed in 1835 due to contract let in 1833 specifying two-year construction period.
    • See La Réole - La Réole, France. Unsure if the newer bridge is at the same location.
Isolate1835 Lagnieu
Main cables:Wire (iron)
Isolate1835 Langeac
Use:Vehicular
Main cables:Wire (iron)
Suspended spans:2
Main spans:2
  • Notes
    • AAJ guesses this bridge was completed in 1835 based on contract let in 1833 specifying a two-year construction period.
    • Likely removed.
Isolate1835 Les Ormes
Use:Vehicular
Suspended spans:1
Isolate1835 Pertuis
Use:Vehicular
Main cables:Wire (iron)
Suspended spans:2
Main spans:2 x 104m
  • Notes
    • Repairs needed soon after opening. Damaged by flood 1843, reopened 1844.
Isolate1835 Rognonas
Status:Removed
Isolate1835 Roquemaure
Location:N 44.069467 E 4.7689
Maps:MapQuest, Acme
Use:Vehicular
Status:Replaced
Main cables:Wire (iron)
Suspended spans:4
Main spans:4
Isolate1836 Agde
Use:Vehicular
Main cables:Wire (iron)
Suspended spans:1
Main span:1
Isolate1836 Choisy-au-bac
Main cables:Wire (iron)
Isolate1836 Conflans
Use:Vehicular
Status:Removed
Isolate1836 Fourchambault
Use:Vehicular
Status:Destroyed, c. 1940's
Main cables:Wire (iron)
Suspended spans:6
Main spans:6
  • Notes
    • Dynamited in 1940 or 1941. Eventually replaced by a long low-lying truss bridge.
Isolate1836 Fourneau
Use:Vehicular
Status:Destroyed, October 1846, by flood.
Suspended spans:2
Main spans:2 x 278.88f
Deck width:19.73f
Isolate1836 Kermélo
Use:Footbridge
Main cables:Wire (iron)
Suspended spans:2
Main spans:2
  • Notes
    • Appears to have been mainly a footbridge. Likely removed.
Isolate1836 Le Guétin
Use:Vehicular
Status:Replaced, 1930
Main cables:Wire (iron)
Suspended spans:5
Main spans:5 x 203.42f
  • Notes
    • Replaced 1930, possibly by another suspension bridge.
Isolate1836 Meung-sur-Loire
Use:Vehicular
Status:Replaced
Main cables:Wire (iron)
Suspended spans:4
Isolate1836 Saint-Sever
Status:Destroyed, 1884
Main cables:Wire (iron)
Suspended spans:2
Isolate1836 Sully-sur-Loire
Use:Vehicular
Status:Collapsed, 1985
Main cables:Wire (iron)
  • Notes
    • Damaged by flood, 1856. Rebuilt, 1859.
Isolate1837 Balbigny
Suspended spans:2
Isolate1837 Cavaillon
Status:Replaced
Main cables:Wire (iron)
  • Notes
    • Destroyed by flood 1838, rebuilt 1840, wrecked by wind 1850, rebuilt 1851, damaged by floods 1886, rebuilt 1887, rebuilt 1914.
    • Replaced by 1931 Cavaillon - Cavaillon, France.
Isolate1837 Constantine
Use:Footbridge
Status:Replaced, c. 1860's
Main cables:Wire (iron)
Suspended spans:3
Main span:332.69f
Side spans:2 x 84.75f
  • Notes
    • Connected l'Ile Saint-Louis and Quai St. Bernard.
    • AAJ says replaced in 1863, but the current bridge at this location (Pont Sully) was not completed until 1876.
    • Companion to 1837 Damiette - Paris, France.
Isolate1837 Damiette
Use:Footbridge
Status:Destroyed, 1848
Suspended spans:2
Main spans:190.3f, 251.85f
  • Notes
    • AAJ: It connected "the Quai of Célestins with the l'Ile Saint-Louis on one side, and with the I'lle of Louviers on the other."
    • Companion to 1837 Constantine - Paris, France.
Isolate1837 Novéant-Corny-sur-Moselle
Use:Vehicular
Status:Replaced, c. 1909
Main cables:Wire (iron)
Isolate1837 Port-Boulet
Status:Destroyed, 1871
Main cables:Wire (iron)
Isolate1837 Rabastens
Use:Vehicular
Status:Replaced, 1920's
Suspended spans:1
  • Notes
    • Eventually replaced by present-day arch bridge.
Isolate1837 Trébaste
Use:Vehicular
Isolate1837 Vallon
Isolate1838 Ancenis
Use:Vehicular
Status:Destroyed, 1944
Main cables:Wire (iron)
Isolate1838 Conflans (Fin d'Oise)
  • Andrésy and Conflans-Sainte-Honorine, France (Oise River)
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    References
    • Structurae
Use:Vehicular
Status:Replaced
Main cables:Wire (iron)
Suspended spans:1
Main span:75m
Deck width:5.5m
  • Notes
    • Likely replaced by the current concrete arch bridge at this location.
Isolate1838 La Roche-Guyon
Use:Vehicular
Status:Only towers remain (last checked, 2006)
Main cables:Wire
Suspended spans:1
  • Notes
    • Ann Saul sent a synopsis of this bridge's history from La Roche-Guyon, Bourg Feodal de l'Ancien Vexin Francais by Ernest Colas. "The author states that the bridge was built in 1838, originally with two pylons, one on each bank of the Seine. In 1882, gale force winds turned over a wide stretch of the bridge floor. Afterwards, another pylon was placed in the middle of the river (if I am translating it properly); however, the bridge was not considered stable enough for modern transportation (the automobile, perhaps). Plans were made for a new bridge and the old one was demolished. The new bridge was never built because of World War I."
Isolate1838 Marmande
Use:Vehicular
Status:Failed, 1930
Main cables:Wire (iron)
Suspended spans:2
Side spans:2
Isolate1838 Mas-d'Agenais
Use:Vehicular
Status:Extant
Main cables:Wire
Suspended spans:3
Main spans:3
  • Notes
    • The two end towers have been replaced. Older photos show stone pylons. Recent photos show concrete end towers with gothic arches.
Isolate1838 Saint-Bernard
Use:Vehicular
Status:Removed
Main cables:Wire (iron)
Isolate1838 St. Laurent
Location:N 45.194433 E 5.729017
Maps:MapQuest, Acme
Use:Vehicular
Status:In use, but restricted to foot traffic (last checked, 2005)
Main cables:Wire (iron)
Suspended spans:1
Isolate1838 Triel-sur-Seine
Use:Vehicular
Status:Replaced
Main cables:Wire (iron)
Isolate1838 Vianne
Use:Vehicular (one-lane, with walkway)
Status:In use (last checked, 2007)
Suspended spans:1
Isolate1839 Basse-Chaîne (Angers)
Status:Collapsed, 1850
Main cables:Wire (iron)
Suspended spans:1
Main span:334.66f
Deck width:23.62f
  • Notes
    • Collapsed under weight of maching troops, April 16, 1850, killing more than 200 soldiers. Collapse precipitated French virtual moratorium on suspension bridge building bringing to a close the prolific era of French wire cable suspension bridges.
Isolate1839 Belleperche
Use:Vehicular
Isolate1839 Cadenet
Location:N 43.712117 E 5.365317
Maps:MapQuest, Acme
Use:Vehicular
Status:Only towers remain (last checked, 2005)
  • Notes
    • Damaged by flood 1843, closed until 1844, destroyed 1944. Towers still standing, 2005.
Isolate1839 Caille (Charles-Albert)
Location:N 46.0126 E 6.111633
Maps:MapQuest, Acme
Use:Vehicular
Status:In use, but restricted to foot traffic (last checked, 2005)
Main cables:Wire (iron)
Suspended spans:1
Main span:192m

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