“If this power is the appendage of a hereditary family it becomes despotic.”
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Lazare Carnot
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 military reforms, which included the introduction of mass conscription, were instrumental in transforming the French Revolutionary Army into an effective fighting force.
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science · French politician, engineer and mathematician (1753–1823) · mathematician · politician · military engineer · military officer · physicist · engineer · poet · general contractor · scientist · also Lazare Carnot, Lazare-Nicolas-Marguerite Carnot, Nicolas Carnot, Carnot
Born 13 May 1753 · Died 2 August 1823 · Q310767
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2021· 1 entry
Le Journal de Saône-et-Loire: Autun | Histoire Lazare Carnot débuta sa victoire au collège d’Autun
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2020· 1 entry
Le Bien Public: Histoire Ces Côte-d'Oriens célèbres : Lazare Carnot, le "Grand Carnot"
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2016· 1 entry
Le Bien Public: Histoire Nolay : les visages de Lazare Carnot
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1993· 1 entry
Published “Attitude strength: One construct or many related constructs?” in Journal of Personality and Social Psychology — cited 479 times.
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1889· 1 entry
At the same time as those of Théophile Corret de la Tour d'Auvergne, Jean-Baptiste Baudin and François Séverin Marceau-Desgraviers
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1823· 1 entry
Died 1823-08-02.
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1815· 1 entry
Career landmark: Minister of the Interior of France (1815–1815).
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1812· 2 entries
Carnot returned to office in defense of Napoleon during the disastrous invasion of Russia and was assigned the defense of Antwerp against the Sixth Coalition
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Returned to serve under Napoleon and oversaw the defense of Antwerp against the Sixth Coalition, and during the Hundred Days he was Napoleon's Minister of the Interior
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1810· 1 entry
Under the title "Traité de la Défense des Places Fortes", his ideas on fortification were further developed in the third edition which was published in 1812
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1809· 1 entry
Napoleon employed Carnot to write a treatise describing how fortifications could be improved, for the use of the École militaire de Metz
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1803· 2 entries
Career landmark: president of the French Academy of Sciences (1803–1804).
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Carnot produced his Géométrie de position
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1802· 1 entry
Voted against the establishment of Napoleon's Consular powers for life and the passing of the title to his children, for as Carnot said when speaking of the power necessary to govern a state "If this power is the appe
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1800· 2 entries
Career landmark: Minister of War (1800–1800).
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Bonaparte appointed Carnot as Minister of War, and he served in that office at the time of the Battle of Marengo
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1795· 1 entry
Career landmark: director (1795–1797).
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1794· 1 entry
Career landmark: President of the National Convention (1794–1794).
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1793· 1 entry
Career landmark: member (1793–1794).
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1791· 1 entry
Career landmark: member of the French National Assembly (1791–1793).
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1773· 1 entry
Studied at École royale du génie de Mézières (1771–1773).
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1769· 1 entry
Studied at Lycée militaire in Autun (1768–1769).
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1753· 1 entry
Born 1753-05-13.
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