François DEVOSGE

(Gray, 25/01/1732 - Dijon, 05/12/1811)

Sculptor that was born in Gray from a family of artists. He became a famous painter (Deshays’s pupil). In 1767 he found de non payed drawning school of Dijon and his most famous pupil was Pierre-Paul Prud’hon the french il correggio.

Pierre-Paul PRUD'HON

(Cluny, 04/04/1758 - Paris, 16/02/1823)

Pupil of Devosge in 1775, he won the regional Rome price of the states of Bourgogne. He lived in Paris and make frindship with Robespierre, however in the end of the French Revolution he was threaten and had to live Paris. He became famous and recommended by Devosge in Gray and made several portraits to Alexandre Martin, the castle owner. Prud’hon‘s style and expression is the allegorical paints and he is also consacrated in print (gravure) and work illustrations.

Augustin COURNOT

(Gray, 28/08/1801 - Paris, 30/03/1877)

From 1809 to 1816 Augustin Cournot studied at Gray college where he won de excelence price of mathematics. He studied in the royal collége in the city of Besançon where he won in 1820 the honour price of special mathematics and then at the superior school in 1821. He graduates in law and in sciences doctor. In 1835 Cournot was named chief administrative officer of the Academy in Grenoble and in 1854 in Dijon. Nowadays the college in Gray has his name after 25 july of 1905.

Edmond BOUR

(Gray, 19/05/1832 - Paris, 09/03/1866)

An excellent pupil in the college in Gray Edmound Bour became professor at the school of Mines and then at the Polythecnic school. He have written several books of geometry, algebry, mechanics, mathematics….in 1858 he recived the big price of mathematics from the sciences academy because of the integration of the equations in the partial derivatives of the first and second degrees. He died with 34 years old and is considerated one of the most great mathematicians from the 19th century.

Jean-Claude BALLOUHEY

(1764 - 1846)

He was the empresses Joséphine and Marie-Louise financial responsable. Napoléon Bonaparte nominated Ballouhey in charged at the time of his exil departure to Elbe island in 1815. Also became member of the private council of the Parme duchess, financial minister and knight of the Saint Georges Constantin Order. In his legacy Ballouhey left the seven account registrations of the empresses to the Great Library of Gray.

Jean-Baptiste ROMÉ de L'ISLE

(Gray, 26/08/1736 - Paris, 07/03/1790)

Became interested in natural history during his trips to the Indies where he was capturated by the english at the time of the taken of Pondichery and returned to France in 1764. In 1774 he published the Essai of crystallography and revealed the first crystallography law of the stability of angles, the founding principle of a new science of crystallography, that preserved his name.

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