Abstract
As a number of scientific branches, mineralogy became as a real Science in the second half of XVIIIe century, aboveall under the influence of a famous precursor Romé de Lisle and because of a genius, Haüy who like many scientists of this age, unacquainted with the "preserved fields" belonged to several teaching and research establishments : University, School of Mines, Natural History Museum... During the XIXe century, the School of Mines welcomed mineralogists of great renow : Brongniart, Berthier, Dufrenoy, De Sernarmont, Mallard and scholars made famous the mastership in mineralogy in other branches... This golden age ended at the beginning of the XXe century. Mineralogy at the School of Mines will know a new development with Grandjean and Friedel researches on liquid crystals and aboveall with the renewal in France of the field mineralogy in the fifties, renew stressed by the reorganization and the exceptional growth of the mineralogical collections of the School.
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