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'''Cesse Aqueduct''' ({{langx|fr|Pont-Canal de la Cesse}}) is one of several aqueducts, or water bridge, created for the Canal du Midi. Originally, the canal crossed the Cesse on the level. Pierre-Paul Riquet, the original architect of the canal, had placed a curved dam {{convert|205|m|ft}} long and {{convert|9.10|m|ft}} high across the Cesse in order to collect water to make the crossing possible; the aqueduct replaced this dam.
The Cesse Aqueduct was designed in 1686 by Marshal Sebastien Vauban and completed in 1690 by Antoine Niquet. Master mason was John Gaudot.<ref name='web1'>{{cite web |title=Nicolas Janberg's Structurae article on Cesse Canal Bridge |url=http://en.structurae.de/structures/data/index.cfm?id=s0022794 |access-date=4 October 2009}}</ref> It has three spans, the middle being {{convert|18.3|m|ft}} and the side being {{convert|14.6|m|ft}} each. It is located in Mirepeisset, Aude (11), Languedoc-Roussillon, France, about one mile from the port town of Le Somail. <ref name='Rolt'>{{cite book | last = Rolt | first = L. T. C. | author-link = L. T. C. Rolt | title = From Sea to Sea: The Canal du Midi | publisher = Allen Lane | year = 1973 | pages =122–129 | isbn = 0-7139-0471-2 }}</ref> <ref name='chandra'>{{cite book | last = Mukerji | first = Chandra | title = Impossible Engineering: Technology and Territoriality on the Canal du Midi| publisher = Princeton University Press | year = 2009 | isbn = 978-0-691-14032-2 }}</ref>
== Cesse Aqueduct dans le cinéma == In 1967, a scene from ''"Le Petit Baigneur"'' directed by Robert Dhéry, with Louis de Funès, was filmed a Cesse Aqueduct.
<gallery widths=220 heights=170> File:Cesse aqueduct sign - closeup.jpg|Pont-Canal de la Cesse File:Anjodi crossing Pont Canal de Cesse.jpg|The hotel barge Anjodi crossing the Cesse River on the Canal du Midi. File:Anjodi on the Pont Canal de la Cesse.jpg|Side view of Anjodi crossing the Cesse. Here, you can see the Cesse River running underneath the Canal du Midi. </gallery>
==See also== *Locks on the Canal du Midi
==References== {{Reflist}}
== External links == * [https://web.archive.org/web/20110721224916/http://www.midicanal.info/cesse_pont_canal_eastern_approach/ Eastern Approach]
Category:Aqueducts on Canal du Midi