Do the bondholders put padlocks on the doors and sell the company's machinery for scrap?
Mr. Retailleau adds that Paris has more serious problems to deal with than padlocks on bridges.
That facade has been shattered in recent weeks, not by bullet or bombs, but through padlocks and keys.
No fines currently exist for those attaching padlocks to the bridge, but City Hall is considering further action if the custom endures.
Uneven rows of padlocks glint beneath the sun, representing the lovers who signed them before flinging their keys into the river.
In that respect, they are heirs to Bruno Munari, who advocated a design award for ubiquitous anonymous objects such as padlocks and fishing nets.
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Padlocks have since sprouted from the Great Wall in China to the Brooklyn Bridge to the fence of a freeway overpass in Silicon Valley.
Master Lock Company, the world's largest manufacturer of padlocks and related security products, is leading by example and bringing jobs back to the United States.
And what do single women want? (We should ask them.) A first guess is security in all its forms: banking, financial services, insurance, not to mention padlocks.
Norm Elrod was "devastated, " he wrote on his blog -- called "Jobless and Less" -- when he spotted "little plastic covers on the electrical outlets, secured with little padlocks" at Espresso 77.
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Enterprising souvenir hawkers peddle padlocks along the bridges.
Back in Dover, the new partnership is struggling to find ways of deterring self-styled "urban explorers", who make a hobby out of defying padlocks and bars to gain access to places not open to the public.
In 2007, the appearance of padlocks in the Italian film Ho Voglia di Te gave the tradition a boost, with reports of lovers' padlocks in Latvia, Russia, Korea, Italy and, some might say a little less glamorously, Southport.
The origin of the practice is unclear - padlocks have appeared in China for years at sacred sites, and there was a flurry of padlocking in the Hungarian town of Pecs in the 1980s, when university students locked them on a bridge next to the university either as a symbol of undying love or their determination to finish their courses.
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