France shows off the world's highest bridge
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President Jacques Chirac has inaugurated the world's highest bridge, a creation taller than the Eiffel Tower, longer than the Champs Elysees and designed to end a traffic bottleneck in southern France.
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Jacques Chirac, the French president, opened the bridge which is in the Tarn Valley in the south west of the country. The four-lane bridge is taller than the Eiffel Tower at 343 metres high and 1.5 miles long.
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There is something almost spectral about the vision of the new bridge across the Tarn Valley at Millau. It is almost as though it is not connected to the normal laws of gravity.
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French President Jacques Chirac has inaugurated a new bridge, hailed as the tallest in the world. The bridge, celebrated as a work of art and an object of French national pride, is 1,125 feet high, making it taller than the Eiffel Tower.
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As air force jets screamed overhead, French President Jacques Chirac inaugurated the world's tallest bridge Tuesday, a stunning masterpiece of engineering that will carry drivers 270 metres (885 feet) above ground.
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The bridge, in southern France, is a spectacular feat of engineering that will carry motorists nearly 300m above the valley of the Tarn River.
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The worldâs tallest bridge was opened in the Tarn Valley, France, yesterday and has been hailed as both a monumental work of art and an unrivalled technological achievement.
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President Jacques Chirac inaugurated the world's highest bridge on Tuesday, a creation taller than the Eiffel Tower, longer than the Champs Elysees and designed to end a traffic bottleneck in southern France.
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French president Jacque Chirac formally inaugurated the world&#39;s tallest bridge in Millau, southern France, on Tuesday, report agencies.
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MILLAU, France -- President Jacques Chirac inaugurated the world's highest bridge yesterday, a creation taller than the Eiffel Tower, longer than the Champs Elysees, and designed to end a traffic bottleneck in southern France.
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FRANCE ran out of superlatives as it joined in rare unison to praise the spectacular new - British-designed â-otorway bridge across the Tarn valley at Millau, which was opened by President Chirac yesterday.