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From the album "Les Travaux Publics de la France". Éditeur: J. Rothschild (Paris). 1883.V in 1833 created a project engineer LeBlanc suspension bridge, which was built in the years 1835-1839 and inaugurated on December 28, 1839. The construction consisted of two ramps of three stone arches in each, a total of 360 meters and a span of the bridge 196 meters. Only the largest suspension bridge in the Swiss Friborgwas larger in size at this time. Wooden flooring bridge contained a 4.8-meter-sided roadway and 0.6 meter sidewalk. Height - 36 meters above the water level at high tide and 42 meters at low tide, which in the XIX century allowed the courts to pass a high machtami.Pervye ten years have passed without any major problems, although the bridge in the wind slightly vibrate and thus broke the small areas of wood flooring mosta.