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002-000022.019
France
002-000022, 2005, France, Paris, bridge, heritage, metallic, nobody, paris, pattern, pillar, plate, stone, street, wave
Pont de Bir-Hakeim
Jean-Philippe DAIN
10 July 05
Jean-Philippe Dain
Ile de France
Paris
FRA
The Bir-Hakeim bridge (Pont de Bir-Hakeim), Paris, France. Formerly called "Viaduct of Passy", the Bir-Hakeim bridge is a double deck bridge built between 1903 and 1905 by the French architects Louis Biette and Jean-Camille Formige, in association with the contractors Dayde and Pille. Supported by metal columns, the upper level is for metropolitan railway, the lower level for motorized traffic and pedestrians with a central walkway. The actual name of the bridge was given in 1949, as a tribute to General Koenig's June 1942 victory in Libya against German troops (Battle of Bir Hakeim, WWII).