le Thouet in Saint Hilaire - Saint Florent

"La Loire à Vélo" passes on the footbridge.

"Aubry, Passage de bac à Saint-FlorentLe pont de Saint-Florent. From 1808 is built the new levee leading to Saint-Florent and avoiding a long detour, either by the Fouchard bridge, or by the Chemin Charnier and a ferry located at the entrance of Breil. This levee is built partly with materials from the destruction of the old abbey church. First, the passage between the two sides of the levee is ensured by a simple ferry, which is represented in 1832 on a lithograph by Aubry."
" In 1840, Joly-Leterme completed the laying of a "wire bridge", a small suspension bridge.

The Ponts et Chaussées replaced it in 1882 with a metal bridge of ambitious proportions, but very narrow."

Bibliography

- Jacques SIGOT, La Dive et son canal, Montreuil-Bellay, 1999.

- Viviane MANASE, « Le Thouet, une rivière et des hommes », Archives d'Anjou, n° 4, 2000, p. 164-177.

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