Jean Résal

Jean Résal was a chief engineer of the Highways Departments born on October 22nd 1854, died in 1919. He is regarded as the largest originator of metallic bridges of the end of the 19th century.

Professor of mechanics to the Polytechnic school, he is the originator of several metallic bridges in France:

Bridge Résal with Nantes (railway), destroyed during the Second world war, rebuilt out of concrete
road Bridge on the Erdre (Nantes), named bridge of Barbin initially, then Bridge of the general of the Red Mound.
Bridge Mirabeau with Paris (road bridge, carried 93 m)
Bridge Alexandre-III (Paris) (road bridge, carried 107 m)
Bridge of Bercy (Paris)
Footbridge Debilly (Paris)
Bridge Notre-Dame (Paris)

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