page_title: Bridges of Lyon
section_title: Pont de Lattre de Tassigny (1956)
hierarchical_section_title: Bridges of Lyon / The Rhône / Pont de Lattre de Tassigny (1956)
caption_attribution_description: Français&#160;: Ponts de Lyon – Pont de Lattre de Tassigny
context_page_description: This is a list of bridges in the French city of Lyon on the Rhône and Saône rivers, ordered from upstream to downstream portions of the river.
context_section_description: A first bridge, known as the Egyptian bridge, was erected on the Rhône in 1846. The name originated from the eight Egyptian columns that held up the bridge cables. It was 200 m long with a roadway of 4.80 meters surrounded by two streets of 1.10 m (3 ft 7 in). This structure, renamed the bridge to Louis-Philippe 1849, was carried off by a mill during a flood in 1854.
  The bridge reopened to the public on March 30, 1856. Built in a more sober style, it was also slightly narrower (4.90 m roadway and two sidewalks of 90 cm). Called Pont St. Clair (as in 1875), it was renamed Pont Vaïsse on December 21, 1931 in tribute to Claude-Marius Vaïsse.
  In 1952, digging for the tunnel de la Croix-Rousse was completed, then the Pont Vaïsse was demolished in 1953 and reconstructed in 1956 a little further down in alignment with the tunnel a new bridge named in honour of Jean de Lattre de Tassigny. The concrete bridge was 150 meters long and 25 meters wide (with a 20-meter carriageway and pavements of 2.50 meters).
caption: Pont de Lattre de Tassagny in 2008
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