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In 1912, the poet Guillaume Apollinaire published \u201cLe Pont Mirabeau\u201d in the journal\u00a0Les Soir\u00e9es de Paris<\/i>;\u00a0<\/i>a year later the poem appeared in his collection\u00a0Alcools.\u00a0<\/i>Even in Apollinaire\u2019s lifetime, the melancholy piece\u2014which uses the image of the ornate bridge spanning the flowing Seine to explore love and the passage of time\u2014was one of his best known. In the years since, its fame has only grown: it was set to music in a much-covered 1953 song by\u00a0L\u00e9o Ferr\u00e9<\/a>, made into a choral arrangement<\/a> by Lionel Daunais, and later interpreted by the Pogues<\/a>. A plaque bearing the last lines can be found on the bridge\u2019s foot.\u00a0<\/p>\n In a rare recording, you can hear Apollinaire himself read \u201cLe Pont Mirabeau\u201d:<\/p>\n