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The Paris Bridge of Olympic Joy and Its Violent Past

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Paris memo

The Pont du Carrousel, gathering place of joyous crowds, has come to symbolize a season of magic. It was not always so.

The Pont du Carrousel, in the center of Paris, has always been a place for lovers to linger and visitors to lose themselves, and never more so than during these Olympics.

Paris memo

The Pont du Carrousel, gathering place of joyous crowds, has come to symbolize a season of magic. It was not always so.

The Pont du Carrousel, in the center of Paris, has always been a place for lovers to linger and visitors to lose themselves, and never more so than during these Olympics.