It crosses the Mayenne river, in the town of Mayenne, in the department of Mayenne — a place that clearly found a name it liked. The bridge itself went through four: Ambroise-de-Loré, then d’Orléans, then Petit Pont, then the Caisse d’Épargne bridge. The one that stuck belongs to Sergeant James Dougal MacRacken, who in August 1944 pulled out the 125 charges left under it and did not come back. The plaque is easy to walk past.
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