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Patrimoine classé
Pont
Paris

Bir-Hakeim Bridge in Paris

    Pont de Bir-Hakeim
    75015 Paris 15e Arrondissement
Ownership of the municipality
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Crédit photo : Bruxelles5 - Sous licence Creative Commons

Timeline

XIXe siècle
Époque contemporaine
1900
2000
1878
Passy Bridge
1903-1905
Construction of the current bridge
juin 1942
Battle of Bir Hakeim
18 juin 1949
Inauguration of the name Bir-Hakeim
10 juillet 1986
Historical monument classification
mars 2023
Jean-Paul-Belmondo Walk
Aujourd'hui
Aujourd'hui

Heritage classified

Pont de Bir-Hakeim, between the 15th and 16th arrondissement (cad. not cadastre, public domain): registration by decree of 10 July 1986

Key figures

Louis Biette - Engineer Directed the construction of the bridge (1903-1905).
Jean Camille Formigé - Architect Designs the scenery of the bridge for Paris.
Gustave Michel - Sculptor Author of the groups *Les Nautes* and *Les Forgerons*.
Pierre Kœnig - General FFL Commanded the battle of Bir Hakeim (1942).
Charles de Gaulle - General and statesman Inaugurated the bridge renamed in 1949.
Jean-Paul Belmondo - Actor Mythical tour of the viaduct (*Fear on the city*).

Origin and history

The Bir-Hakeim Bridge, originally named the Passy Bridge, was built between 1903 and 1905 under the direction of engineer Louis Biette and architect Jean Camille Formigé, to replace a pedestrian metal bridge built in 1878 for the Universal Exhibition. The book, produced by Daydé & Pillé, combines a road level and a rail viaduct for line 6 of the metro, relying on the Swan Island. It is adorned with allegorical sculptures (La Science, Le Travail, L A Danish statue, The Reborn France (1930), crowns Swan Island.

The bridge was renamed Bir-Hakeim in 1949 in tribute to the battle waged by the French Forces libres (FFL) in Libya in June 1942, under the command of General Pierre Koenig. A commemorative plaque and a nearby monument (1955) honour this episode. On June 18, 1949, an inauguration ceremony brought together General Charles de Gaulle, FFL veterans and personalities such as Admiral Thierry d'Argenlieu. The bridge, inscribed in the historical monuments in 1986, becomes a place of memory, but also an emblematic cinematic decoration (scenes of Fear on the city with Belmondo, Inception, etc.).

The bridge was also the scene of terrorist attacks: in 1975, the assassination of Turkish ambassador Ismail Erez by Armenian activists, and in 2023, the murder of a tourist by an Islamist terrorist. In March 2023, his central land was named Promenade Jean-Paul-Belmondo, with reference to a cult scene shot on the viaduct. Today, it offers a remarkable view of the Eiffel Tower and remains a key passage between the right and left banks, marked by its military, artistic and urban history.

External links

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