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Pont au Change
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Definition:a bridge over the Seine River in central Paris connecting the Île de la Cité and the "Conciergerie" (a prison during the French Revolution).
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a tall and powerful man, with an old broad-brimmed straw hat upon his head, and clad in a blue cotton carter's frock, which hung loosely over trousers of the same material, crossed the Pont au Change, and darted with a hasty step into the Cité, that labyrinth of obscure, narrow, and winding streets which extends from the Palais de Justice to Notre Dame.
Eugène Sue. The Mysteries of Paris, 1 of 6
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he would arrive, in less than a quarter of an hour, at some mouth on the Seine between the Pont au Change and the Pont-Neuf, that is to say, he would make his appearance in broad daylight on the most densely peopled spot in Paris.
Victor Hugo. Les Misérables
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