Municipal employees remove barriers thick with "love padlocks" on the Pont des Arts on June 1, 2015 in Paris, France. Yellow-vested officials were out early Monday morning on the city's iconic Pont des Arts, wielding cutting equipment to free the padlocks, while a handful of curious tourists looked on. Paris, known worldwide as the city of romance, on Monday began the heart-breaking process of removing nearly one million "love locks", padlocks chained to the city's bridges by love-struck couples. [Photo/IC]
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