Category:Langlois Bridge

Object location	43° 39′ 25″ N, 4° 37′ 16″ E	View all coordinates using: OpenStreetMap	43.656944; 4.621111

This building is en partie classé, en partie inscrit au titre des monuments historiques de la France. It is indexed in the base Mérimée, a database of architectural heritage maintained by the French Ministry of Culture, under the reference PA00081184 . brezhoneg ∙ català ∙ Deutsch ∙ English ∙ español ∙ Esperanto ∙ euskara ∙ français ∙ italiano ∙ magyar ∙ Nederlands ∙ português do Brasil ∙ português ∙ română ∙ sicilianu ∙ slovenščina ∙ suomi ∙ svenska ∙ Ελληνικά ∙ беларуская (тарашкевіца) ∙ македонски ∙ русский ∙ українська ∙ বাংলা ∙ +/−

Langlois Bridge 

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Instance of	wooden bridge road bridge
Named after	Vincent van Gogh
Made from material	steel
Location	Arles, Bouches-du-Rhône, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, Metropolitan France, France
Street address	rue Gaspard-Monge
Heritage designation	monument historique inscrit (1986–) classified historical monument (1988–)
43° 39′ 25″ N, 4° 37′ 16″ E
Authority file  Q315318 BabelNet ID: 02152475n Mérimée ID: PA00081184 Structurae structure ID: 20002347 Reasonator Scholia Wikidocumentaries PetScan statistics WikiMap Locator tool KML file WikiShootMe OpenStreetMap Search depicted

Being one of eleven draw bridges built by a Dutch engineer along the channel from Arles to Port-de-Bouc, this bridge might have remembered the artist his homeland. Van Gogh obviously misunderstood the bridge's name, which was the name of its long-time keeper, Langlois, and referred to it in letters as "Pont de l'Anglais" ["Englishman's Bridge"] in letters 469 and 488 (where he also notes that some of the Arles scenery remembers him the Netherlands).

The original wooden bridge was replaced by an armoured concrete bridge in 1930 which was destroyed in 1944, as were nine others out of eleven along the channel. In Fos-sur-Mer, however, one of the original wooden bridges survived. Thisone was unmounted in 1959 and rebuilt at Arles by 1962, but, for practial reasons, some 2 kilometers away from its original place, and somewhat outside the town within a scenery which is somewhat similar to the one the artist had painted.(Gaspard-Monge street; the original place, today situated within town, is taken by Réginelle bridge).

The "moved" bridge, which was named Pont Van Gogh (Van Gogh bridge) from that time on, is owned by the Arles tourist board. It had to be "completely restored" later, which was accomplished by 1997.

External links[edit]

• Arles tourist board (French)