Pont Mirabeau - in The Arts

In The Arts

• Le Pont Mirabeau is a poem by Guillaume Apollinaire, in the anthology Alcools. To hear a 1913 reading by the author, click here.
• This poem was later set to music by Lionel Daunais.
• Brassens refers to it in his song Les Ricochets.
• Sam Larkin's song "Mirabeau Bridge" (1974) inspired by Apollinaire's poem, has been covered by James Keelaghan on his CD "Roads".
• Jem Finer composed music for an English translation of the poem. It appears on The Pogues' album Pogue Mahone (1996).
• Le Pont Mirabeau is a song by Marc Lavoine that came out in 2001.

• The Ville de Paris, descending into the Seine guided by Navigation, armed with a francisque, symbol of France

• Navigation, representing Parisian inland water transport

• Abundance, on the prow of a trading ship

• Commerce, holding rigging, at the stern of an abundant boat

• The arms of the city of Paris, on the back of each pile