Aveyron. The 20th anniversary of the Millau viaduct is D-Day [GALERIE PHOTOS]

December 14, 2024, souvenir photo for the 20th anniversary of the Millau viaduct with Clément Pons, Hélène Rivière, Jacques Godfrain, Emmanuelle Gazel, Jean-Claude Gayssot, Véronique Martin Saint-Léon and Aurélie Heitzmann. – © Le Progrès Saint-Affricain

On December 14, 2004, the President of the Republic Jacques Chirac cut the inaugural ribbon of the Millau viaduct. 20 years later, souvenir photo with some of the leading actors of the time and a young man who has been passionate about this work of art since his childhood.

“On December 14, 2004, during the inauguration of the Millau viaduct with Jacques Chirac, it was a Tuesday, I was 8 years old and I was at school,” remembers Clément Pons. “I would have really wanted to participate in its construction but I was not in the right generation. My dream was to climb into one of the cranes attached to the construction piers. » This enthusiast of the Millau viaduct set himself a challenge for the 20th anniversary of the steel and concrete giant: deliver the model of a…

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