What is Corps of Bridges and Roads (France)?
The '''Corps of Bridges''' (''Corps des Ponts'') is a [[France|French]] civil service corps. People entering the Corps are trained at the ''{{lang|fr|[[École des Ponts ParisTech]]}}''. Most of them are from the ''{{lang|fr|[[École Polytechnique]]}}''. The rest come from the ''{{lang|fr|[[École Normale Supérieure]]}}''. In 2002, the corps of the engineers of Bridges and Roads (''Ponts et Chaussées''), the engineers of civil aviation, the engineers-geographs and the meteorological engineers merged. Students who choose the corps of engineers of civil aviation are trained at the [[French Civil Aviation University]].<ref>{{in lang|fr}} [http://www.legifrance.gouv.fr/affichTexte.do?cidTexte=JORFTEXT000000772696 Décret n°2002-523 du 16 avril 2002 portant statut particulier du corps des ingénieurs des ponts et chaussées]</ref> ==Former or current members== * [[Paul-Louis Arslanian]] * [[Henri Becquerel]] * [[Michel Bernard]] * [[Jules Dupuit]] * [[Gérard Mestrallet]] * [[Jean Peyrelevade]] * [[Marie François Sadi Carnot]] (former president of the French Republic) * [[Jacques Villiers]] ==References== {{reflist}} ==Further reading== * [http://www.enpc.fr/aipc/public/corps/corps.html Official site of the Corps] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20040511024131/http://www.enpc.fr/aipc/public/corps/corps.html |date=2004-05-11 }} {{in lang|fr}} {{france-stub}} [[Category:Aviation in France]] [[Category:Transport engineering]] [[Category:Government of France]]