Austerlitz Bridge

The Pont d Austerlitz takes its name from the Battle of Austerlitz in eighteen hundred and five, a victory so significant to Napoleon that he ordered the names of officers who fell during the fight to be inscribed directly onto the bridge. While you walk across, look closely at the stonework, where those tributes still stand as a permanent memorial to the soldiers of the Napoleonic era. This bridge serves a practical purpose as a vital crossing over the Seine, but it also functions as a hidden hydrometric scale, with markings that help officials track the water levels of the river.