[10] If at first glance, this position in the city and in the Consilium ordinarium seems immutable, the Canadian historian professor Jean-Luc Bonnaud[11] allows us to detect a career evolution, "over several generations and most of whose solidarity is played out between the members of this bourgeoisie."

[f] These wealthy officers are not yet a homogeneous social group, but this success allows them to send their children to pursue university studies.

[26] The Courmes house, linked to major Marseille commerce,[27] invests in a commercial fleet and takes shares notably in the "Tartane Saint-Pierre", "L'avenir" and the "Rose-Louise".

[28] On the eve of the French Revolution, the Courmes were part of the 28 families of Grasse's high society, listed by Hervé de Fontmichel [fr].

[29] Claude-Marie Courmes was part of a group of young royalists from Grasse, the "Children of the Sun" who notably formed a counter-revolutionary gathering on Ventôse 7, Year V (February 25, 1797).

Member of the district electoral college in 1804, general councilor of Var from 1811 to 1833, sitting in the majority supporting the July monarchy.

[33] He was a French aviator in 1915 during the World War I. son of Marcel, Lieutenant Christian Courmes, , Siege of Calais (1940), prisoner in 1942 at the Colditz fortress.

Father Louis Courmes, priest, "Bénéficier en l'Église Catédralle de Grasse" received arms in 1696.