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🔒 The 45-Ton Love Lock Default: Why Paris Liquidated a Tradition to Save Its Bridges
Paris didn't ban love locks because it hates romance.
It banned them because over one million padlocks eventually weighed 45 tons—roughly the equivalent of 20 elephants standing on a pedestrian bridge.
What followed became one of the strangest collisions of love, engineering, urban planning, wildlife protection, and public art in modern history.