Pont de Bir-Hakeim

This guide to the Pont de Bir-Hakeim in Paris traces the two-tier bridge from its Belle Epoque construction in the early nineteen-hundreds to the name it later took from a 1942 desert battle, when General Koenig and thirty-six hundred Free French troops held a fort against Rommel's forces for two weeks. It follows how Paris commemorated that stand in 1948. Stand on the lower walkway, where the bridge's iron columns catch the light along the Seine.