Lazare Carnot
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Lazare Carnot was a French military engineer, mathematician, and politician who lived from 1753 to 1823 and played important roles during the French Revolution and Napoleonic era. He is historically significant for his contributions to military strategy, his work in mathematics and engineering, and his influence on French governance during a transformative period in European history.
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- 1753
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- 1823
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- Betrachtungen über die Theorie der Infinitesimalrechnung
- De la corrélation des figures de géométrie
- Loi portant que celle du 3 brumaire an IV, et les articles II, III, IV et V de celle du 14 frimaire an V, relatifs à l'exclusion des fonctions publiques, sont regardés comme non avenus
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- Exposé de la conduite politique de M. le lieutenant-général Carnot
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Lazare Nicolas Marguerite, Comte Carnot ( French: [lazaʁ nikɔla maʁɡəʁit kaʁno]; 13 May 1753 – 2 August 1823) 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 (levée en masse), were instrumental in transforming the French Revolutionary Army into an effective fighting force.
Carnot was elected to the National Convention in 1792, and a year later he became a member of the Committee of Public Safety, where he directed the French war effort as one of the Ministers of War during the War of the First Coalition. He oversaw the reorganization of the army, imposed discipline, and significantly expanded the French force through the imposition of mass conscription. Credited with France's renewed military success from 1793 to 1794, Carnot came to be known as the "Organizer of Victory".
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1753 births1823 deaths18th-century French engineers18th-century French mathematicians18th-century French military engineers18th-century French military personnel18th-century French writers19th-century French engineers19th-century French mathematicians19th-century French military engineers19th-century French writersBurials at the Panthéon, Paris