"Bebel" had shot a mythical scene from Henri Verneuil's film, "Peur sur la ville", released in 1975, where he played Commissioner Letellier.
Pursuing a serial killer raging in the capital, the interpreter of Breathless (1960), The Man from Rio (1964) or The Ace of Aces (1982) had progressed on the roof of a metro train of line 6, which crosses the Seine by air on this bridge.
This scene "earned him injury for the only time in his career," said MoDem MP Maud Gatel, whose group had proposed a tribute of this type a few weeks after the death of the actor.
The site was chosen "with his family", said the deputy (PCF) in memory Laurence Patrice, rejoicing that tourists frequenting the bridge can "find the name of this great actor who is quite known abroad".
The inauguration will take place "close to its 90th anniversary," she said. The actor with more than 80 works would have been 90 years old on April 9.
By assigning this name, the Council of Paris has once again departed from the practice which provides that the name of a personality can not be attributed to a public road of the capital before the five years following the death.
He already did so earlier this week by renaming the quai de Seine in front of the Musée d'Orsay after former head of state Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, and a stadium in the thirteenth arrondissement after Pelé, a legendary Brazilian footballer who died in December.
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