Ten of the Most Famous Bridges in France

The second bridge on the list is the Pont d’Avignon, designed and construction overseen by St. Bénézet. The great Adhémar Jean Claude Barré de Saint-Venant designated him as the “patron saint of engineers” and had an annual celebration of his life. You can read about that and many other things of the extraordinary life of Saint-Venant–one of the most influential engineers of the nineteenth century–in the post Taking the Last Voyage with Newton and Pascal.