Two beautiful bridges
link the two French départements
of the Aveyron and the Tarn.
The first, a cantilevered railway-bridge, was inspired
by the then-recent Eiffel Tower and built
by the same construction-company
between 1897 and 1902, and had
the widest span of any steel-structure
in the world.
The second (also chosen from an open competition)
is a state-of-the-art, elegantly-curving
motorway suspension-bridge,
so high that fog forms and clouds descend below it.
Thanks to Socialism and the handsome Jean Jaurès
(pacifist, assassinated in 1914) it cost far fewer lives.
But (dear, less handsome, Lord Rogers)
it intrudes upon the landscape rather brutally.
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