Before I was travelling to Paris this March, I had a guide book about the city and while my wife was reading it and preparing where we should see and what to visit and suddenly and surprisingly she found some information about Libya at the heart of the French capital. It was a beautiful bridge and Metro station called Pont de Bir-Hakeim, so I decided, even before the visit, that I should see this place. Being a Libyan of course I was so happy to see it as I never ever heard of it before, so I thought I should share it with you.
Surprisingly, it is the closest Metro station to Eiffel Tower and I took as usual many photos which I enclose some of them and I even posted them in Flicker. It’s basically a bridge and on the top of it a railway for the metro.
Well, the origin of the name comes from a small & remote oasis in the Libyan Desert near Tobruk , it was where the First Free French Davison of General Koening defended the site from 26 may to 11 June 1942 against the German and Italian forces directed by the famous German General Rommel which was called the fox of the desert. It allowed and gave the British Army enough time to reorganise and subsequently allowing them to halt the Axis advance at the First Battle of El Alamein.
