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Lazare Carnot

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Lazare Carnot

Birth
Nolay, Departement de la Côte-d'Or, Bourgogne, France
Death
2 Aug 1823 (aged 70)
Magdeburg, Stadtkreis Magdeburg, Sachsen-Anhalt, Germany
Burial
Paris, City of Paris, Île-de-France, France
Plot
Cell 23
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French General. Left-wing member of the Revolutionary Convention. His opposition to the Terror turned him against Maximillian Robespierre. He went o to have a distinguished political and military career under Napoleon but was proscribed as a regicide at the restoration on the Bourbons. Sent into exile, he devoted himself to mathematics, and was a pioneer, with Monge, of analytic geometry. Grandfather of Sadi Carnot. Entered Pantheon in 1889.
French General. Left-wing member of the Revolutionary Convention. His opposition to the Terror turned him against Maximillian Robespierre. He went o to have a distinguished political and military career under Napoleon but was proscribed as a regicide at the restoration on the Bourbons. Sent into exile, he devoted himself to mathematics, and was a pioneer, with Monge, of analytic geometry. Grandfather of Sadi Carnot. Entered Pantheon in 1889.

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  • Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/7505/lazare-carnot: accessed ), memorial page for Lazare Carnot (13 May 1753–2 Aug 1823), Find a Grave Memorial ID 7505, citing Panthéon, Paris, City of Paris, Île-de-France, France; Maintained by Find a Grave.