
[English]
The “New Bridge”, or the Bridge of August 22, 1944
Planned in the 18th Century as an extension to the fortified wall, this bridge was constructed a century later during the second Empire (185201870) to allow the high road to cross the Tarn.
Completed in 1866, two years after a matching railway bridge, it demonstrated how means of communication developed during the industrial age.
It bore the names Napoleon Bridge, Bridge of Strasbourg, and New Bridge (pont Neuf) before finally becoming the Bridge of August 22, 1944, a name chosen to commemorate the passage of a German column through the city in 1944 and the fighting that ensued thereafter.
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