A World of Change.(Pont Neuf in Paris)

From: U.S. News & World Report | Date: January 29, 2007| Author: | Copyright information

One of the loveliest attractions in a city with a surfeit of them, the Pont Neuf in Paris is a delicate series of stone arches that spans the Seine. Though its name means "New Bridge," it is in fact the oldest in Paris, having opened the same year that English colonists landed in Jamestown, an ocean away. Bridging, as it does, the old and the new, the Pont Neuf is an apt metaphor for 1607-a year of extraordinary transition around the world.

In Europe, political changes were underway in England and Russia-peacefully in the former, more chaotically in the latter. One major war ...

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