Its graduated cast-iron circular supports were quickly dubbed "napkin rings" (ronds de serviette).

At each corner of the bridge were erected classic style stone allegorical sculptures by Louis Petitot, which remain in situ.

The new bridge of reinforced concrete still crosses the river in three arches reaching the right bank in front of the Louvre, in direct line with the Arc de Triomphe du Carrousel.

On 1 May 1995, the Moroccan immigrant Brahim Bouarram drowned after being pushed into the Seine river near the bridge by members of a Front National procession.

[2] In 2003, in the name of all the citizens of Paris, the mayor of the city, Bertrand Delanoë, honored the memory of Bouarram and all the victims of racism with a commemorative plaque on the bridge.