Watch online for free Lausanne Pont Bessières Live Camera. The idea of building a Carolina Bridge at the Industrial School was not new, since already in 1829, projects were presented. But these projects were put aside. Then in 1901, Mr. Charles Bessières, banker in Lausanne and bourgeois of this city, bequeathed the sum of CHF 500,000.–, with a well-defined destination and on the express condition that the Cité-École Industrielle bridge be built before his brother upstream, the School of Medicine-Cathedral bridge.