Au revoir, mes petites.
Paris began to bid adieu to its famous love locks on Monday -- and with them, years of lovers' memories. City workers cut hundreds of thousands of the tiny locks from the iron grillwork on the sides of the Pont des Arts bridge; they used a crane and wheeled dollies filled with the signed trinkets. Soon, clear plexiglass will replace the grills.
And though the locks may be gone, the keys will still rest forever in the Seine River below.