Mac Racken Bridge in Mayenne, France

The Pont Mac-Racken crosses the Mayenne river, in the town of Mayenne, itself in Mayenne, France - because apparently, once you find a good name, why stop at one use. Beyond the naming overkill, the bridge itself has gone through more names than most bridges manage in a lifetime. Construction started in May 1824 and wrapped up a decade later in 1834, and for a while it was simply the Pont Ambroise-de-Loré. Then it became the Pont d'Orléans, then the Petit Pont, then the Caisse d'Épargne bridge, drifting through identities the way old bridges sometimes do when nobody's quite sure what to call t

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