Education
École Polytechnique.
École Polytechnique.
Gras, who was a colonel at the time, played a very important role in the formulation and industrial production of the Lebel rifle. He was an alumnus of Ecole Polytechnique, then a shooting instructor at l"École Normale de Tir at Châlons. Eventually he supervised the three weapon manufacturing facilities at Street Etienne, Châtellerault and Tulle.
Finally he became Secretary of War for France.