Le Pont Perent
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Le Pont Perent is an ancient bridge built around 1500 to replace a natural river crossing formed by 2 great rocks (to the left). The valley of the Guiers-Mort river was for a long time the only access to the Chartreuse Monastry via a narrow mule path. From 1495 a few bridges were constructed and used until the replacement of the path by the new 'Route du Desert' and Le Pont St Bruno in 1856.
The bridge is built of white limestone,and was classed as a Monument Historic in 1923.
Credit for this information goes to a couple of white tourist information signs at the site.
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France is affectionately referred to as "the Hexagon" for its overall shape.
French history goes back to the Gauls, a Celtic tribe which inhabited the area circa 300BC until being conquered by Julius Caesar.
The Franks were the first tribe to adopt Catholic Christianity after the Roman Empire collapsed. France became an independent location in the Treaty of Verdun in (843 AD), which divided up Charlemagne's Carolingian Empire into several portions.
The French monarchy reached its zenith during the reign of Louis XIV, the Sun King, who stood for seventy-two years as the Monarch of all Monarchs. His palace of Versailles and its Hall of Mirrors are a splendid treasure-trove of Baroque art.
The French Revolution ended the rule of the monarchy with the motto "Liberty, Equality, Fraternity!" On July 14th, 1789 angry mobs stormed La Bastille prison and began the Revolution in which Louis XVI, his wife Marie-Antoinette and thousands of others met the guillotine.
One decade after the revolution, Napolean Bonaparte seized control of the Republic and named himself Emperor. His armies conquered most of Europe and his Napoleonic Code became a lasting legal foundation for concepts of personal status and property.
During the period of colonization France controlled the largest empire in the world, second only to Britain.
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Text by Steve Smith.
