Étienne-Jules Marey (1830-1904) was a doctor, physiologist and inventor who was born in Beaune and died in Paris. This monument to him in the town of his birth is very impressive, with Marey seated and a series of moving horses at the side of him. He was one of the first people to methodically study 'la machine animal', photographically recording different movements of both animals and humans: chronophotographie, as Marey termed it. Among his many other creations, he also developed the sphigmograph (the precursor to the sphigmomanometer), making a portable version.
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