Le Pont de Madame de Maintenon

From Madame de Maintenon, morganatic wife of Louis XIV, whom local tradition holds was born in Sinnamary in 1635.

It is a Bailey bridge erected in 1956 and opened to traffic in 1958. Before that, the river was crossed by canoe.

Yes. Closed in 2015 on safety grounds, it was restored and reopened to vehicle traffic on 20 February 2023.

It is a Bailey bridge: a 140-metre demountable steel structure, not a stone-built span.