Lazare Carnot

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Lazare Nicolas Marguerite Carnot ( 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.

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  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.

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  An 1893 depiction by Georges Moreau de Tours of Carnot at the Battle of Wattignies a century earlier.

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  A textbook illustration of Carnot's system of bastion fortification.

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  Tomb of Lazare Carnot in the Panthéon, Paris

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  Réflexions sur la métaphysique du calcul infinitésimal, 1797

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  Principes fondamentaux de l'équilibre et du mouvement, 1803