Lucky. My wife and kids are in France for the school holidays at the moment, coming back tonight. Nowhere near this bridge, though- they're just across the Swiss border from Basile. Apparently they attended a circus yesterday which preserves and breeds 5 of the known remaining 200 Siberian tigers. Got to hand it to the French, they do an awful lot of stuff right, even if it is popular in some circles to jeer at them!
"... They ne'er cared for us
yet: suffer us to famish, and their store-houses
crammed with grain; make edicts for usury, to
support usurers; repeal daily any wholesome act
established against the rich, and provide more
piercing statutes daily, to chain up and restrain
the poor. If the wars eat us not up, they will; and
there's all the love they bear us."
-- Shakespeare: Coriolanus, Act 1, scene 1
