The Corps of Bridges (Corps des Ponts) is a great technical corps of the French state. It is formed of the State Engineers of the Bridges.
People entering the Corps are educated at the École Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées. Most of them are from École Polytechnique; these are known as X-Ponts; the rest come from École Normale Supérieure or the regular curriculum of the École des Ponts.
In 2002, the corps of engineers of the engineers of Bridges and Roads (Ponts et Chaussées), the engineers of Civil Aviation, the engineers-geographs and the meteorological engineers merged.
Important former or current members
- Henri Becquerel
- Christian Beullac
- Fulgence Bienvenüe
- Jean-Baptiste Biot
- Augustin Louis Cauchy
- Gaspard-Gustave Coriolis
- Henry Darcy
- Jules Dupuit
- Augustin-Jean Fresnel
- Freycinet
- Louis Joseph Gay-Lussac
- Pierre Simon Girard
- Philippe Lebon
- Étienne Louis Malus
- Pierre Méchain
- Charles Joseph Minard
- Claude-Louis Navier
- Gaspard de Prony
- Marie François Sadi Carnot (former president of the French Republic)
- Bernardin de Saint-Pierre
- Louis Vicat
External links
- Official site of the Corps (French)
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