The Pont au modify is the bridge over a Seine River in Paris, France. The bridge is located at the border between the first as living as fourth arrondissements. It connects the Île de la Cité from the Palais de Justice in addition to the Conciergerie, to the Right Bank, at the Place du Châtelet.
Several bridges bearing the score Pont au Change realize stood on this site. It owes its name to the goldsmiths and money changers who had installed their shops on an earlier representation of the bridge in the 12th century. The current bridge was constructed from 1858 to 1860, during the reign of Napoleon III, and bears his imperial insignia.
The Pont au conform is gave in the novel Les Misérables by Victor Hugo. Police Inspector Javert finds himself unable to reconcile his duty to surrender Jean Valjean to the authorities with the fact that Valjean saved his life. He comes to the Pont au change and throws himself into the Seine. It also plays a role in the novel Perfume: The Story of a Murderer by Patrick Süskind; the perfumier Baldini, who takes the protagonist Grenouille as his apprentice, owns a shop on the bridge. After Grenouille leaves him, the bridge collapses and his companies and shop, with him inside, falls into the river.