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  Lazare Carnot Summary
Carnot was elected to the Legislative Assembly as deputy from Pas-de-Calais and concerned himself with military affairs.
Born in Nolay, Carnot was educated in Burgundy and obtained a commission in the engineer corps of the Prince de Condé.
Carnot returned to office in defense of Napolon during the disastruous invasion of Russia; he was assigned the defence of Anvers against the Sixth Coalition - he only surrendered on the demand of the Count of Artois.
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  Hippolyte Carnot - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Lazare Hippolyte Carnot (October 6, 1801 - March 16, 1888) was a French statesman.
The second son of Lazare Nicolas Marguerite Carnot, he was born at Saint-Omer.
He opposed purely secular schools, holding that "the minister and the schoolmaster are the two columns on which rests the edifice of the republic." By this attitude he alienated both the Right and the Republicans of the Extreme Left, and was forced to resign on July 5, 1848.
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 AllRefer.com - Lazare Nicolas Marguerite Carnot (French History, Biography) - Encyclopedia
Lazare Nicolas Marguerite Carnot[lAzAr´ nEkOlA´ mArgurEt´ kArnO´] Pronunciation Key, 1753–1823, French revolutionary, known as the organizer of victory for his role in the French Revolutionary Wars.
A military engineer by training, Carnot became the military genius of the Revolution and was chiefly responsible for the success of the French in the wars.
Carnot was the best-known advocate of the principle of active defense.
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 Lazare Carnot - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Lazare Nicolas Marguerite Carnot (Nolay, May 13, 1753 - Magdeburg, August 22, 1823) was a French politician and mathematician.
His son Sadi Carnot was responsible for the second law of thermodynamics.
His grandson Marie François Sadi Carnot (son of Hyppolyte) was President of France from 1887 until his assassination in 1894.
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 CARNOT, LAZARE NICOLAS - LoveToKnow Article on CARNOT, LAZARE NICOLAS   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
CARNOT, LAZARE HIPPQLYTE (1801-1888), French statesman, the second son of L. Carnot (q.v.), was born at Saint-Omer on the 6th of October 1801.
The winter of 1793I 794 was spent in new pitparations, in instituting a severe discipline in the new and ill-trained troops of the republic and in improvising means and rr~aterial of war He continued to visit the armies at the front, and tO inipire thOrn with energy.
Carnot was elected one of the five Pirectors in November I79~, and continued to direct the war department during the campaign of 1796 Late in 1796 he was made a member (rst class) of the Institute, which he had helped to establish.
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In September 1792 Carnot was elected representative from Pas-de-Calais to the National Convention-the assembly elected under the influence of the fall of the monarchy-and at the end of the month was sent, with two other representatives, on a mission to Bayonne to organize the defense against a possible attack from Spain.
Carnot himself was sent into the dŽpartements of the Nord and of Pas-de-Calais and at the end of March to the Army of the North.
The characterization of Lazare Carnot as "the Organizer of Victory" is a legend created by the victors of the Thermidor coup, who, holding those vanquished in the coup responsible for the Terror, surrounded the survivors with all the brilliance of the victory.
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 Carnot biography
Lazare Carnot graduated from the School of Engineering in Mézières in 1773.
In 1794, under direction from Carnot and Monge, a 'grande école' was set up called 'École centrale des travaux publiques' but its name was changed to 'École polytechnique' in the following year.
His son Sadi Carnot visited him in Magdeburg in 1821 and it is clear that Lazare Carnot influenced his son.
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He is best know for a special property of the second law of thermodynamics, called Carnot's rule, which says essentially, that there must be a degradation of energy in any machine which outputs free energy.
Born at Nolay, he was educated in Burgundy, and obtained a commission in the engineer corps of Condé.
He was the father of Nicolas Léonard Sadi Carnot.
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 LAZARE CARNOT FACTS AND INFORMATION   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
Lazare Nicolas Marguerite Carnot (Nolay, May_13, 1753 - Magdeburg, August_22, 1823) was a French politician and mathematician.
His first work, published in 1784, was on machines; it contains a statement which foreshadows the principle of energy as applied to a falling weight, and the earliest proof of the fact that kinetic_energy is lost in the collision of imperfectly elastic bodies.
His son Sadi Carnot was responsible for the second_law_of_thermodynamics.
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 Lazare Carnot -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
Lazare Nicolas Marguerite Carnot (Nolay, May 13, 1753 - (Click link for more info and facts about Magdeburg) Magdeburg, August 22, 1823) was a (The Romance language spoken in France and in countries colonized by France) French (A person active in party politics) politician and (A person skilled in mathematics) mathematician.
His moderation proved his undoing, however, and he was one of the two directors ousted in the (Twelfth month of the Revolutionary calendar (August and September); the month of fruit) Fructidor coup of 1797.
His son (French physicist who founded thermodynamics (1796-1832)) Sadi Carnot was responsible for the (A law stating that mechanical work can be derived from a body only when that body interacts with another at a lower temperature; any spontaneous process results in an increase of entropy) second law of thermodynamics.
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Carnot, Nicolas Léonard Sadi (1796-1832), French physicist and military engineer, son of Lazare Nicolas Marguerite Carnot, born in Paris and...
Important contributions to the field of physical chemistry were made towards the end of the 18th century by the French chemist Comte Claude Louis...
While the first law indicates that energy must be conserved in any interactions between a system and its surroundings, it gives no indication whether...
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 Carnot, Lazare Nicolas Marguerite. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
After the fall of Maximilien Robespierre, who was primarily responsible for the Reign of Terror, Carnot managed to avoid punishment for his own part in the Terror and became a member of the Directory.
He was ousted from the Directory in the coup of 18 Fructidor (Sept., 1797) and fled abroad.
Carnot was the best-known advocate of the principle of active defense.
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 Carnot's Theorem
Lazare Nicolas Marguérite Carnot (1753-1823) was a person of many gifts and strong political views.
In the formulation and the proof of Carnot's theorem I'll use the standard notations.
In any triangle ABC, the (algebraic) sum of the distances (suitably signed) from the circumcenter O to the sides, is R + r, the sum of the circumradius and the inradius.
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 Lazare Nicolas Marguerite Carnot - Encyclopedia.com
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Lazare Nicolas Marguerite Carnot, 1753-1823, French revolutionary, known as the organizer of victory for his role in the French Revolutionary Wars.
A military engineer by training, Carnot became the military genius of the Revolution and was chiefly responsible for the success of the French in the wars.
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 Carnot - Open Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
Carnot, a celebrated French family in politics and science with the following members:
Marie Adolphe Carnot (1830)-1920), mining engineer and chemist.
This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title.
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Lazare Nicolas Marguerite Carnot (May 13 1753 - August 22 1823) mathematician and politician.
his eldest son, Nicolas Léonard Sadi Carnot (June 1 1796 - August 24 1832) mathematician
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Once again Carnot, at the side of the generals, led the attack and...
It was established in 1794 by the National Convention as the École Centrale des Travaux Publics (“Central School of Public Works”) under the leadership of Lazare Carnot and Gaspard Monge.
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Reply of L. Carnot, citizen of France, one of the founders of the Republic, and constitutional member of the Executive Directory; to the report made on the conspiracy of the 18th Fructidor, 5th year, by J. Ch.
Carnot was one of the leading military figures of the French Revolution.
He served more than once as president of the Directory, but was forced to take refuge abroad at the time of the coup d'état of the 18th Fructidor (1799).
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Carnot, Lazare Nicolas Marguerite (1753-1823), French statesman and military engineer, born in Nolay, and prominent during the French Revolution.
Carnot, Nicolas Léonard Sadi (1796-1832), French physicist and military engineer, son of Lazare Nicolas Marguerite Carnot, born in Paris and educated...
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 Istorija matematike, 17. vek, Monge, Carnot i Ojlerovi ucenici   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
Лазарев најстарији син Николас Леонард Сади Карно (Nicolas Leonard Sadi Carnot, b.
Хиполит Карно (Hippolyte Carnot, 1801-1888), други Лазаров син, био је писац, издавач, и члан либералне опозиције обојици: Лују Филипу и Лују Наполеону (касније Наполеону III).
Хиполитов син Сади Карно (Sadi Carnot, 1837-1894) био је четврти председник Треће републике (1887-94).
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 Lazare Nicolas Marguerite Carnot
Carnot, Lazare Nicolas Marguerite, 1753–1823, French revolutionary, known as the organizer of victory for his role in the
After the fall of Maximilien Robespierre, who was primarily responsible for the Reign of Terror, Carnot managed to avoid punishment for his own part in the Terror and became a member of the
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 CARNOT, Lazare
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XIII of the Law on Public Salvation passed by the Council of Ancients [3] [4]; membership in the Directory implicitly revoked
Comte Carnot, comte de l'Empire (count Carnot, count of the Empire) [from 20 Mar 1815]
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 CARNOT, Marie-François-Sadi
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Many sources erroneously ignore that Carnot died after midnight, thus giving 24 Jun 1894 as the date of his death instead of 25 Jun 1895 [3, p.
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 Lazare Nicolas Marguerite Carnot (1753-1823), French mathematician and politician
Lazare Nicolas Marguerite Carnot (1753-1823), French mathematician and politician
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