In 1725, plans were made to build a bridge to replace the ferry that crossed the Seine at Place Louis-XV (now Place de la Concorde). The project was revived by Louis XVI and entrusted in 1787 to the architect Jean-Rodolphe Perronet, who was responsible for 13 other bridges in France and the creation of the Ecole Royale des Ponts et Chaussées. Completed in 1791, in the middle of the revolutionary period, it is called the Pont de la Révolution. It was not until 1830 that it became the Pont de la Concorde. A century later, its deck was widened to allow automobile traffic. Today it is twice as wide as it was originally.