Le pont de Bir-Hakeim, anciennement pont de Passy,
The first version of the book, metal pedestrian bridge named Passy footbridge, dating from the Universal Exhibition of 1878.
Following a competition held in 1902, it was rebuilt in 1905 under the direction of Louis Biette built by Daydé & Plundered, and decorated by Jean-Camille Formigé, architect of the City of Paris, for circulation pedestrian and automobile as well as supporting the railway viaduct, based on the Isle of Swans. Two groups of statues cast Gustave Michel, representing boatmen and blacksmiths, adorn the stone piles, four low-relief allegorical decorate masonry, "Science" and "Work" of Jules Coutan upstream, "the Electricity "and" Trade "of Jean Antoine Injalbert downstream. At the tip of the Isle of Swans stands "France resurgent" Holger Wederkinch, offered in 1930 by the Danish colony of capitaleJune 18, 1949 for the 9th anniversary of the appeal of June 18, the city council of Paris, led by Pierre de Gaulle, organizes a commemorative event in the presence of General Charles de Gaulle, who gave a speech, General Marie -Pierre Koenig, General Edgard de Larminat and widow of General Philippe Leclerc de Hauteclocque. At that time, the bridge was renamed in memory of the Battle of Bir Hakeim (supplied by General Koenig and the Free French Forces (FFL) in Libya in 1942) . Since the bridge is a memorial of the Free French, which was associated in 1955 the monument to the 1st Free French Division, located nearby on the quai Branly
