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Lazare Carnot

1753 - 1823

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Lazare Nicolas Marguerite, Comte Carnot (French pronunciation: [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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Lazare Carnot has received more than 406,174 page views. His biography is available in 48 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 45 in 2019). Lazare Carnot is the 1,844th most popular politician (up from 1,982nd in 2019), the 646th most popular biography from France (up from 711th in 2019) and the 146th most popular French Politician.

Lazare Carnot was a French military engineer, politician, and mathematician. He was best known for his work on the Carnot cycle, a principle of thermodynamics.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Lazare Carnot ranks 1,844 out of 15,577. Before him are Laurent-Désiré Kabila, Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani, Jean Jaurès, Tony Blair, Li Keqiang, and Tiglath-Pileser I. After him are Robert Ritter von Greim, Marcus Furius Camillus, Emomali Rahmon, Britannicus, Félix Faure, and Carinus.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1753, Lazare Carnot ranks 4. Before him are Utamaro, Joseph de Maistre, and Louis-Alexandre Berthier. After him are Jean-Baptiste Kléber, Benjamin Thompson, Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla, Marie Joséphine of Savoy, Phillis Wheatley, Frederick, Hereditary Prince of Denmark, Louise Marie Adélaïde de Bourbon, Duchess of Orléans, and Louis I, Grand Duke of Hesse. Among people deceased in 1823, Lazare Carnot ranks 5. Before him are Edward Jenner, David Ricardo, Pope Pius VII, and Louis-Nicolas Davout. After him are Jacques Charles, Giovanni Battista Belzoni, Ann Radcliffe, André-Jacques Garnerin, Charles François Dumouriez, Abraham-Louis Breguet, and Edmund Cartwright.

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In France

Among people born in France, Lazare Carnot ranks 646 out of 6,011. Before him are Daniel Auber (1782), Paul Broca (1824), Siméon Denis Poisson (1781), Éliphas Lévi (1810), Jean Jaurès (1859), and Clotilde (475). After him are Jean-Baptiste Biot (1774), Antoine-Jean Gros (1771), Félix Faure (1841), François Ravaillac (1578), Agnès Sorel (1422), and Jacques Charles (1763).

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Among POLITICIANS In France

Among politicians born in France, Lazare Carnot ranks 146. Before him are Pasquale Paoli (1725), Charles, Duke of Vendôme (1489), Albert I, Prince of Monaco (1848), Yolande de Polastron (1749), Jean Parisot de Valette (1494), and Jean Jaurès (1859). After him are Félix Faure (1841), François Ravaillac (1578), Emmanuel Philibert, Duke of Savoy (1528), Dom Pérignon (1639), Salome Zourabichvili (1952), and Joan II of Navarre (1311).

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