The Corps of Bridges 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

École Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées

Founded in 1747, the École nationale des ponts et chaussées , often referred to as les Ponts, is the world's oldest civil engineering school...

. Most of them are from École Polytechnique

École Polytechnique

The École Polytechnique is a state-run institution of higher education and research in Palaiseau, Essonne, France, near Paris. Polytechnique is renowned for its four year undergraduate/graduate Master's program...

; these are known as X-Ponts; the rest come from École Normale Supérieure

École Normale Supérieure

The École normale supérieure is one of the most prestigious French grandes écoles...

 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
  Henri Becquerel
  Antoine Henri Becquerel was a French physicist, Nobel laureate, and the discoverer of radioactivity along with Marie Curie and Pierre Curie, for which all three won the 1903 Nobel Prize in Physics.-Early life:...
  
  
• Christian Beullac
  Christian Beullac
  Christian Beullac, French politician, born 29 November 1923 in Marseillan, , died 16 June 1986.- Biography :After secondary education in Nice and at the Champollion lycée in Grenoble, he went to the École Polytechnique in 1943 and entered the Corps des Ponts et Chaussées...
  
  
• Fulgence Bienvenüe
  Fulgence Bienvenüe
  Fulgence Bienvenüe was a French civil engineer, best known for his role in the construction of the Paris Métro....
  
  
• Jean-Baptiste Biot
  Jean-Baptiste Biot
  Jean-Baptiste Biot was a French physicist, astronomer, and mathematician who established the reality of meteorites, made an early balloon flight, and studied the polarization of light.- Biography :...
  
  
• Augustin Louis Cauchy
  Augustin Louis Cauchy
  Baron Augustin-Louis Cauchy was a French mathematician who was an early pioneer of analysis. He started the project of formulating and proving the theorems of infinitesimal calculus in a rigorous manner, rejecting the heuristic principle of the generality of algebra exploited by earlier authors...
  
  
• Gaspard-Gustave Coriolis
  Gaspard-Gustave Coriolis
  Gaspard-Gustave de Coriolis or Gustave Coriolis was a French mathematician, mechanical engineer and scientist. He is best known for his work on the supplementary forces that are detected in a rotating frame of reference. See the Coriolis Effect...
  
  
• Henry Darcy
  Henry Darcy
  Henry Philibert Gaspard Darcy was a French engineer who made several important contributions to hydraulics.-Biography:...
  
  
• Jules Dupuit
  Jules Dupuit
  Jules Dupuit was an Italian-born French civil engineer and economist.He was born in Fossano, Italy then under the rule of Napoleon Bonaparte. At the age of ten he emigrated to France with his family where he studied in Versailles — winning a Physics prize at graduation. He then studied in the...
  
  
• Augustin-Jean Fresnel
  Augustin-Jean Fresnel
  Augustin-Jean Fresnel , was a French engineer who contributed significantly to the establishment of the theory of wave optics. Fresnel studied the behaviour of light both theoretically and experimentally....
  
  
• Freycinet
  Charles de Freycinet
  Charles Louis de Saulces de Freycinet was a French statesman and Prime Minister during the Third Republic; he belonged to the Opportunist Republicans faction. He was elected a member of the Academy of Sciences, and in 1890, the fourteen member to occupy seat the Académie française.-Early years:He...
  
  
• Louis Joseph Gay-Lussac
• Pierre Simon Girard
• Philippe Lebon
• Étienne Louis Malus
• Pierre Méchain
  Pierre Méchain
  Pierre François André Méchain was a French astronomer and surveyor who, with Charles Messier, was a major contributor to the early study of deep sky objects and comets.-Life:...
  
  
• Charles Joseph Minard
  Charles Joseph Minard
  Charles Joseph Minard was a French civil engineer noted for his inventions in the field of information graphics.- Biography :...
  
  
• Claude-Louis Navier
  Claude-Louis Navier
  Claude-Louis Navier born Claude Louis Marie Henri Navier , was a French engineer and physicist who specialized in mechanics.The Navier–Stokes equations are named after him and George Gabriel Stokes....
  
  
• Gaspard de Prony
  Gaspard de Prony
  Gaspard Clair François Marie Riche de Prony was a French mathematician and engineer, who worked on hydraulics. He was born at Chamelet, Beaujolais, France and died in Asnières-sur-Seine, France.-Education and early works:...
  
  
• Marie François Sadi Carnot
  Marie François Sadi Carnot
  Marie François Sadi Carnot was a French statesman and the fourth president of the Third French Republic. He served as the President of France from 1887 until his assassination in 1894.-Early life:...
  
   (former president of the French Republic)
• Bernardin de Saint-Pierre
• André Thiébault

• Louis Vicat
  Louis Vicat
  Louis Vicat French engineer.He graduated from École Polytechnique 1804 and École des Ponts et Chaussées 1806....
  
  

External links

• Official site of the Corps