Statue of the bridge of Bir-Hakeim

The bridge, built after 1900, pulls its originality of the meeting in the same work of a road road and an air traffic intended for the passage of the subway. In the center of the railroad viaduct, the écoinçons of the arc of masonry is occupied by the faces of the Science and the Work and those of the Electricity and the Business. Gustave Michel sculptured in the fallout of bows, being at one with the work, eight faces of smiths and bargemen in the powerful muscle structure fixing to the farms of the bridge cartridge of the Republic.