page_title: Pont de l'Alma
section_title: The Zouave statue and flooding
hierarchical_section_title: Pont de l'Alma / History / The Zouave statue and flooding
caption_attribution_description: Français&#160;: Zouave du pont de l'Alma le 3 juin 2016 pendant la crue de la Seine English: The pont de l'Alma Zouave statue, june the 3rd, 2016
context_page_description: The Pont de l'Alma is a road bridge in Paris, France across the Seine. It was named to commemorate the Battle of Alma during the Crimean War, in which the Ottoman-Franco-British alliance achieved victory over the Russian army, on 20 September 1854.
context_section_description: The general public took the original bridge as a measuring instrument for water levels in times of flooding on the Seine: access to the footpaths by the river embankments usually was closed when the Seine's level reached the feet of The Zouave; when the water hit his thighs, the river was unnavigable. During the great flood of the Seine in 1910, the level reached his shoulders. The French Civil Service used the Pont de la Tournelle, not the Pont de l'Alma, to gauge flood levels, and since 1868 uses the Pont d'Austerlitz.
caption: The Zouave statue, 3 June 2016
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