Pont Saint Esprit

Pont-Saint-Esprit is a cooperative in the Gard departement in southern France. It is arranged on the Rhone River and is the site of an authentic intersection, subsequently its name. The Ardeche River streams into the Rhone, just toward the north of the scaffold. The inhabitants are called Spiripontains. The extension was seen by the Irish traveler Symon Semeonis in 1323 on his way to the Holy Land: "Pont-Saint-Esprit where there is a well known stone scaffold over the Rhone, a large portion of a mile long, the tallness of which and the broadness of its curves are significantly appreciated by each one of the individuals who traverse it."

Pont-Saint-Esprit is acclaimed as the town of birthplace of Michel Bouvier, a cabinetmaker, who was the precursor of John Vernou Bouvier III, father of Jacqueline Kennedy. On 15 August 1951, a flare-up of harming, set apart by intense insane scenes and different physical indications, happened in Pont-Saint-Esprit. In excess of 250 individuals were included, incorporating 50 people interned in havens and four deaths. Most scholarly sources acknowledge ergot harming as the reason for the pandemic, while a couple speculate different causes, for example, harming by mercury, LSD-25, mycotoxins, or nitrogen trichloride.