9 comments to ‘Love Locks’ on the Pont Des Arts Bridge in Paris

• Victoria

  March 18th, 2011 at 7:43 am · Reply

  After a recent surprise trip to Paris, being proposed to under a twinkling effiel tower and leaving our mark with a lock on the Pont d’art, it is definately romance at its finest.
  It’s simply bureaucracy at its worst thinking that this act of love can be vandalism, and the only reason it may be distracting is by passers by being intrigued and finding the locks nothing but ‘fabulous’!!!
  If you’re ever in Paris, leaving a lock to mark your love is a must …it is definately “romance at its finest”.

  • Kimberly Grigg

    March 21st, 2011 at 7:17 am · Reply

    How absolutely romantic, Victoria! Your proposal sounds like a fairytale! Thanks for sharing!

• StevenX

  August 4th, 2011 at 9:07 am · Reply

  The locks are starting to appear on other bridges, and Parisians are in an uproar. They will probably be removed at some point (at great taxpayer expense, which make the Parisians even madder). Nice sentiment but I see their point. Now people are starting to carve initials into the town’s trees. As usual, a good idea gets way out of hand. And they wonder why the French can be cool to tourists?

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  August 9th, 2011 at 11:24 am · Reply

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• Adam A Abdulla

  February 8th, 2012 at 2:52 am · Reply

  I love the concept behind this locks “our love is locked forever”. The same concept is found in Rome and on Great Wall of China. You may find similar concept in shrines in Iran and Iraq. Recently, an artist from Bahrain, Adel Al-Abbasi, made a few sculpture artworks with locks and with the similar concept. He was awarded for the work. In fact, it was a life size steel structure sculpture of a pregnant woman with locks hanging on it alonge with fabric knots. you may find the artworks related to this topic on the following link or you may google his name:

  http://adel-alabbasi.deviantart.com/

  In general, thanks for such a great interesting article. I would like to see the follow up and the recent news about the locks.

  Adam

• ann marie

  February 10th, 2012 at 5:41 pm · Reply

  My husband and I left our first lock on the bridge during our engagement, when we had travelled to Paris to meet his family, we have since revisited for our honeymoon and took another engraved lock which we attached to the first one. We would be very disappointed if our locks were removed. My husband is a French man and it was his suggestion that we visit this very special bridge to show our love to the world.
  Ann Marie

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• Richard Rosol

  March 5th, 2012 at 12:02 pm · Reply

  My parents are in their early 80′s and still taking an annual vacation abroad. Next month they are going to Paris (first time for my dad), and I have bought them an engraved padlock to present to them on their departure. As I expect they are unfamiliar with this beautiful tradition, I will tell them to carry the lock with them on their walks, without telling them what it’s for. I would like for them to learn from a local the lock’s purpose, and to fulfill its destiny on on a late-night, moonlit Paris promenade.

• Nana

  May 4th, 2012 at 11:18 am · Reply

  5/4/2012
  Having just returned from Paris,along with my granddaughter and daughter-in-law, we walked across Pont des Arts bridge and loved the locks affixed to the railings.
  As I had a day glow green lock in my suitcase at our hotel-we returned the next day with it and my granddaughter wrote our 3 names on it. We did this without realizing the meaning of this ritual, and laughed heartily when we later found out the meaning.
  And last week walking over the Brooklyn Bridge in New York City, I spied locks affixed to its railings-and also on the fence at the new waterfront park under the Bridge overlooking the statue of Liberty. Another reason to smile and laugh.