Viaduc de Tolbiac

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The Tolbiac viaduct was a Parisian viaduct built in 1895. It was used for the crossing of the Paris-Austerlitz network via the rue de Tolbiac. It replaced a previous viaduct, destroyed in a storm. It was dismantled in 1996, leaving its place for a slab-mounted construction over the François-Mitterrand Library station, foreshadowing the development of the Paris Rive Gauche area. Only the masonry arch crossing the Rue du Chevaleret remains. The viaduct is stored in pieces in Auneau for about twenty years, in Eure-et-Loir. The remains of the old viaduct were removed from storage at the Auneau station and then destroyed in February 2017, despite the promise of a winding. The bridge covered three spans, 51 metres, 60 metres and 51 metres, respectively, for a total length of 162 metres. The viaduct serves as a framework for a novel by Léo Malet featuring Nestor Burma and published in 1956, Brouillard at the bridge of Tolbiac.

The viaduct, built in 1895, made it possible to connect the two sides of the railway beam of the Austerlitz station. When designing the ZAC Paris Rive Gauche, it is decided to fully cover the...