Footbridge Passerelle Debilly was built as the Eiffel Tower for the World Expo, only in 1900, and became the second metal structure, illustrating the era of technological advances. In a sense, he repeated the fate of the tower - was conceived as a temporary structure, and stayed forever.

In the design of the second World Expo's emphasis on the arts. There were luxurious Grand Palais, the Petit Palais, Pont Alexandre III- all in a lush Beaux Arts. On the waterfront near the Eiffel Tower were grandiose thematic pavilions, on the contrary, on the right bank, the recreated medieval quarter "Old Paris" went to the Pont de l'Alma. To help visitors get out of the Army and Navy of the pavilion to the "old Paris", and built this temporary, as they believed the bridge.

Its industrial style not quite fit into the concept design. The architect Louis-Jean Resal put on two stone piers metal frame and decorated it with dark green tiles, which was to create the impression of ripples on the waves. The bridge looked pretty brutal.

Perhaps Parisians comforted by the fact that this passage, like the tower, here temporarily. However, six years later, the bridge just a little moved, eight - named him in honor of the French General Jean-Louis Debiyi, just in time for the centenary of his death at the Battle of Jena. The bridge still stood and stood. In 1941, however, over it threatened - Architectural Society president said dismissively of it as a long-forgotten accessory past events. However, building safely survived until 1966, when he was finally included in the supplementary register of historical monuments along with the Alexandre III bridge and the viaduct of Austerlitz (Metro bridge across the Seine).

In 1991, the bridge was repainted and in 1997 - updated cover, placing the pavement of solid tropical wood. Now it is hardly going through it people remember that he was once a temporary or inappropriate. Now it's just a beautiful and convenient pedestrian bridge.