Commission des Sciences et des Arts

The Commission des Sciences et des Arts (Commission of the Sciences and Arts) was a French scientific and artistic institute. Established on 16 March 1798, it consisted of 167 members, of which all but 16 joined Napoleon Bonaparte's conquest of Egypt and produced the Description de l'Égypte (published in 37 Books from 1809 to around 1829). More than half were engineers and technicians, including 21 mathematicians, 3 astronomers, 17 civil engineers, 13 naturalists and mining engineers, geographers, 3 gunpowder engineers, 4 architects, 8 artists, 10 mechanical artists, 1 sculptor, 15 interpreters, 10 men of letters, 22 printers in Latin, Greek and Arabic characters. Bonaparte organised his scientific 'corps' like an army, dividing its members into 5 categories and assigning to each member a military rank and a defined military role (supply, billeting) beyond his scientific function.

Members[]

Some members, like Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, Monge, or Vivant Denon, are universally remembered but most have been all but forgotten. Some became members of the Institut d'Egypte.

the elder (1760–1819), mechanic
, (1780–1820), mechanic
(1762–1843), mechanic
(1775–1808), polytechnician (X 1794), engineer of the Ponts et Chaussées
, printer (Oriental section)
Antoine-Vincent Arnault (1766–1834), writer
(1776–1857), polytechnician (X 1796), engineer of the Ponts et Chaussées
Charles-Louis Balzac (1752–1820), architect
(1752–1801), astronomer and diplomat
Beaudoin, printer (French section)
(1778–1808), orientalist and interpreter
(1776–1853), polytechnician (X 1794), engineer of the Ponts et Chaussées
Claude Louis Berthollet (1748–1822), chemist
(1776–1834), polytechnician (X 1794), geographical engineer
Julien Bessières (1777–1840), surgeon
, printer (French section)
(1765–1799), engineer of the Ponts et Chaussées
(1775–1845), marine engineer
Mathurin-François Boucher (1778–1851), polytechnician (X 1794), ingénieur du génie maritime
(1748–1828), pharmacist in chief
Boulanger, printer (French section)
, printer (French section)
(died 1830), interpreter
Maximilien de Caffarelli du Falga, general
(died 1799), artist
(1775–1852), polytechnicien (X 1794), engineer of the Ponts et Chaussées
Jean-Jacques Castex (1731–1822), sculptor
(1766–1840), mechanic
comte Jacques Joseph Gaspard Antoine Chabrol de Volvic (1773–1843), polytechnician (X 1794), engineer of the Ponts et Chaussées
père (1744–1816), chemist
(1776–1801), polytechnicien (X 1794), chemist
(1778–1845), polytechnicien (X 1794), gunpowder commissaire
(1774–1856), polytechnicien (X 1795), marine engineer
(died 1801), mechanic
(died 1801), mechanic
(1773–1815), chemist
Nicolas-Jacques Conté (1755–1805), director of mechanics
(1780–1801), botanist
(1777–1859), polytechnician (X 1794), capitaine en premier dans le corps des ingénieurs géographes
(1770–1832), geometer
Pierre Louis Antoine Cordier (1777–1861), mineralogist
Louis Costaz (1767–1842), geometer
Jean-Marie-Joseph Coutelle (1748–1835), adjunct to the director of mechanics
Couvreur, mechanic
(1777–1861), orientalist
Dominique Vivant Denon (1747–1825), writer, artist
Desfours, mechanic
(1775–1799), surgeon
Déodat Gratet de Dolomieu (1750–1801), mineralogist and geologist
, printer (Oriental section)
Antoine Dubois (1756–1837), doctor
(born 1782), surgeon
(born 1776), polytechnician (X 1794), printer (French section)
(1779–1846), engineer of the Ponts et Chaussées
(1781–1847), engineer of the Ponts et Chaussées
(1776–1798), polytechnician (X 1795)
(1777–1861), polytechnician (X 1794), ingénieur géographe
André Dutertre (1753–1842), painter
(1768–1798), engineer of the Ponts et Chaussées
(born 1782), printer (French section)
, head of the printer (Oriental section)
(1760–1799), geographical engineer
(1776–1855), polytechnician (X 1796), engineer of the Ponts et Chaussées
(1763–1825), engineer of the Ponts et Chaussées
(1750–1809)
(1775–1850), polytechnician (X 1794), engineer of the Ponts et Chaussées
, artist
Joseph Fourier (1768–1830), geometer
Antoine Galland (1763–1851), printer (French section)
Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire (1772–1844), naturalist
(1779–1853), polytechnician (X 1798), naturalist
Pierre-Simon Girard (1765–1835), chief engineer of the Ponts et Chaussées
(1758–1800), administrator
(1776–1846), polytechnician (X 1795), shipbuilder
(1766–1834), mechanic
(died 1800), mechanic
(born 1775), mechanic
Pierre Jacotin (1765–1827), geographical engineer
, printer (French section)
Pierre Amédée Jaubert (1779–1847), orientalist and interpreter
Jean-Baptiste Prosper Jollois (1776–1842), polytechnician (X 1794), engineer of the Ponts et Chaussées, entrusted with the hydraulic works in the Nile Delta
(1774–1798), painter
Edme François Jomard (1777–1862), polytechnician (X 1794), geographical engineer and archaeologist
(1780–1868), student geographical engineer
(1766–1835), doctor
(born 1776), surgeon
Michel Ange Lancret (1774–1807), polytechnician (X 1794), engineer of the Ponts et Chaussées
(died 1799), printer (French section)
François Laroche (1778–1806), polytechnician (X 1795), geographical engineer
Le Brun (died 1801)
(1772–1827), geographical engineer
(born 1772), antiquary
(died 1799), geographical engineer
, interprètre
(1776–1827), mechanic
Jean-Baptiste Lepère (1761–1844), architect
Gratien Le Père (1769–1832), chief engineer of the Ponts et Chaussées
Jacques-Marie Le Père (1763–1841), chief engineer of the Ponts et Chaussées
(died 1801), chemist
, printer (French section)
(born 1760), geographical engineer
, interpreter
(1770–1854), mechanic
(1763–1846), printer (Oriental section)
Jean-Joseph Marcel (1776–1854), director of printers
Marlet, printer (French section)
(1771–1855), engineer of the Ponts et Chaussées
(1778–1851), astronome
, imprimeur section orientale
(1780–1842), polytechnician (X 1794), engineer of the Ponts et Chaussées
Gaspard Monge, comte de Péluse (1746–1818), mathematician
(1759–1836), botanist
(1756–1832), architect
(1740–1811), astronomer
(died 1798), orientalist and interpreter
François-Auguste Parseval-Grandmaison (1759–1834), writer
, printer (Oriental section)
(1773–1868), mechanic
(1778–1842), polytechnician (X 1794), engineer of the Ponts et Chaussées
(1775- ?), polytechnician (X 1795), ingénieur géographe
François Pouqueville (1770–1838), surgeon
, antiquary
(1769–1837), architect
(1758–1812), printer (French section)
(born 1761), astronomer
Alire Raffeneau-Delile (1778–1850), botanist
(1773–1843), engineer of the Ponts et Chaussées
(1777–1810), orientalist
(1766–1852), painter
Michel-Louis-Étienne Regnaud de Saint-Jean d'Angély (1762–1819), politician
(1776–1823), polytechnicien (X 1794), engineer of the Ponts et Chaussées, adjunct to Bertholet and entrusted with controlling the currency in Cairo
(1777–1848), printer (Oriental section)
(1772–1852), compositor
(1770–1815), painter
(1775–1823), antiquary
Rivet, printer (French section)
(born 1771), pharmacist
, printer (French section)
(1769–1831), pharmacist
François Michel de Rozière (1773–1842), mining engineer
, printer (Oriental section)
(1772–1834), polytechnician (X 1794), engineer of the Ponts et Chaussées
(died 1799), knight of Malta
Marie Jules César Lelorgne de Savigny (1777–1851), zoologist
(died 1810), geographical engineer
Jean-Lambert Tallien (1767–1820), National Convention member
(1735–1798), chief geographical engineer
(1772–1798), polytechnicien (X 1794), engineer of the Ponts et Chaussées
Jean Michel de Venture de Paradis (1739–1799), chief interpreter
Very, printer (French section)
(1783–1849), student of the École nationale des ponts et chaussées
(1780–1855), polytechnician (X 1794), inspector general of the Ponts et Chaussées, employed in leveling the Suez isthmus
Guillaume André Villoteau (1759–1839), musicographer
(1779–1818), polytechnician (X 1796), marine engineer
Louis Vincent (born 1780), engineer of the Ponts et Chaussées