Lazare Carnot
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Lazare Nicolas Marguerite, Comte Carnot was a French mathematician, physicist, military officer, politician and a leading member of the Committee of Public Safety during the French Revolution. His mil
Portrait by Louis-Léopold Boilly, 1813
Lazare Carnot, a feverishly productive member of the Committee of Public Safety during the Reign of Terror. His part in raising the levée en masse probably saved the French Revolutionary armies from defeat at the hands of their numerically superior opponents.
An 1893 depiction by Georges Moreau de Tours of Carnot at the Battle of Wattignies a century earlier
A textbook illustration of Carnot's system of bastion fortification.
Hippolyte Carnot
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Lazare Hippolyte Carnot was a French politician. He was the younger brother of the founder of thermodynamics Sadi Carnot and the second son of the revolutionary politician and general Lazare Carnot, w
Lazare Carnot
…His son Sadi Carnot was a founder of the field of thermodynamics and the theory of heat engines (see Carnot cycle). His second son Lazare Hippolyte Carnot was a French statesman. His grandson Marie François Sadi Carnot (son of Hippolyte) was President of the French Republic from 1887 until his assassination…
Lazare Hippolyte Carnot
Jacques Charles Dupont de L'Eure
François Arago
Louis Eugène Cavaignac, 1848