Corps of Bridges and Roads (France)

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.

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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.

Related Topics:
École Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées - École Polytechnique - École Normale Supérieure

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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.

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