Love padlocks are seen on the Solferino bridge after a chunk of fencing with thousands of locks fell off under their weight on the Pont des Arts bridge, in Paris, June 9, 2014. Francois Mori/AP ...

Lovers visiting Paris will soon have to find a new way of expressing their affections now that the city has decided to remove locks from its famed Pont des Arts, aka "Love Lock," bridge.

Sculptor Daniel Hourdé’s new exhibition is helping usher in a new era for Paris' Pont des Arts bridge, once known as "love lock bridge." Sculptor Daniel Hourdé’s new exhibition is helping ...

The dreamy Pont des Arts footbridge in central Paris was so weighed down by the thousands of locks affixed to its grillwork that a section of the fencing collapsed Sunday. No one was hurt ...

Couples walked on the famous Pont des Arts bridge to attach padlocks with their names on them and throw away the keys into the Seine River below. But the mass of the locks damaged the bridge ...

PARIS -- The thousands of locks that cling like barnacles to the Pont des Arts in Paris have become a symbol of danger, rather than love, after a chunk of fencing fell off under their weight.

The evening before, Andrea had proposed to Laura after which the two decided to visit the Pont des Arts and make the ultimate expression of love for each other — by hanging the padlock on the ...

The city of Paris started removing padlocks from the Pont des Arts on Monday, effectively ending the tourist tradition of attaching “love locks” to the bridge. For years, visitors have been ...