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Hippolyte Carnot

The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Hippolyte Carnot , 1801-88, French statesman; son of Lazare Carnot. He shared his father's exile after 1815 and returned to France in 1823. A follower of Claude Henri de Saint-Simon , he participated in the July Revolution of 1830. He came to oppose the July Monarchy and was elected three times as an opposition member of the chamber of deputies. He took part in the radical agitation that led to the February Revolution of 1848 and became minister of education in the provisional government. Entering (1864) the corps législatif, he joined the liberal opposition to Emperor Napoleon ... Read more
Sadi Carnot
, 1837-94, French statesman, president of the Third Republic (1887-94); son of Hippolyte Carnot. As minister of public works (1880-85) and of finance (1886), he remained untainted by the financial scandals of the time. He succeeded... Read more
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...considerable reworking. Clapeyron stated his indebtedness to Carnot at the beginning of his memoir, which contained the first diagrammatic representation of the so-called Carnot cycle. Still it was not until 1843, when Clapeyron's...that the world of science began to take notice. By then Carnot had been ... Read more

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; ...mujer durante la primavera de 1848. Este curso lo patrocinó el nuevo Ministerio de Educación Pública, Hippolyte Carnot, y entre otras cosas fue legendario por la gran asistencia del público. En él, Legouvé incorporó... Read more

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