Carnot

Lazare Hippolyte a French Democrat, born in St. Omer, April 6, 1801. After the February Revolution (1848) he was appointed Minister of Public Instruction, but soon resigned. He was elected a senator for life in 1875, and died March 16, 1888, Carnot, Lazare Nicolas Marguerite, a French statesman, general, and strategist; born in Burgundy, May 138, 1753. In 1791 he was appointed deputy to the constituent a embly. In the following March he was sent to the Army of the North, where he took command and succe fully repulsed the enemy. On his return he was made member of the Committee of Public Safety, and directed and organized the French armies with great ability and succe . In 1797 Carnot was appointed Minister of War by Napoleon (1800). But he remained in principle an_ inflexible Republican, voted against the consulship for life, and protested against Napoleon’s a umption of the imperial dignity. For seven years after this Carrot remained in retirement, publishing several valuable military works. In 1814 Napoleon gave him the chief command at Antwerp, and in 1815 the post of Minister of the Interior. After the. Emperor’s second fall he retired from France. He died in Magdeburg, Pru ia, Aug. 3, 1823.