The patriarch of this family, Émile Goussery (1867-1941) born in Joigny in the Yonne, studies at the high school of Sense(Direction), then goes(surrenders) to Paris to start to learn about practice of Fine Arts and about architecture. In 1887, he(it) obtains the Vocational Certificate in the education(teaching) of the drawing in middle schools(colleges) and in schools. He(It) is named(appointed) in Beaune to the middle school Monge where he(it) makes his(its) career up to his(its) pension(retreat) in 1930.
At the same time(In parallel), he(it) becomes very fast one of the actors of local cultural and artistic life. Over the years, her implications and her commitments make emerge a personality inescapable(major) beaunoise. He(It) puts a lot in particular into the erection of monuments Marey and Ziem as well as into the creation of a museum of the wine.