François Cyrille Grand'Eury

François Cyrille Grand'Eury (9 March 1839, Houdreville – 22 July 1917, Malzéville) was a French geologist, paleontologist and mathematics teacher.

He studied at the École Loritz in Nancy and at the École des mines in Saint-Étienne, and later worked as a mining engineer in Roche-la-Molière. From 1863 to 1899 he taught classes in mathematics at the École des mines in Saint-Étienne, where in 1883 he received the title of professor.

From 1877 he was a member of the Société géologique de France and in 1885 was elected a correspondent member of the Académie des Sciences. and in 1877 described the genus Tubiculites.

Principal works La flore carbonifère de la Loire et du centre de la France (1877) – The Carboniferous flora of the department of Loire and of central France. Mémoire sur la formation de la houille (1882) – Treatise on the formation of coal. Formation des couches de houille et du terrain houiller (1887) – Stratigraphy associated with coal and coal fields. Géologie et paléontologie du bassin houiller du Gard (1890) – Geology and paleontology of the coal fields in Gard.

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