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Population (2000): 10637 Housing Units (2000): 4943 Land area (2000): 5.969526 sq. miles (15.461002 sq. km) Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km) Total area (2000): 5.969526 sq. miles (15.461002 sq. km) FIPS code: 11348 Located within: ...

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Carnot is the name of a celebrated French family in politics and science with the following members: Lazare Nicolas Marguerite Carnot (1753–1823), French mathematician and politician of the French Revolution Nicolas Léonard Sadi Carnot (1796–1832), one ...

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Committee of Public Safety as Prieur de La Marne and Carnot, who in their own right showed a remarkable grasp of the elements of strategy.

In his bluff way Carnot hated the self-righteous posturing of the cult of the Supreme Being and told Robespierre so in no uncertain terms.

But in the time that had passed since Barere suggested he do that, the political climate had abruptly changed, and seeing him working through the night on the speech in the offices of the Committee, Billaud and Carnot knew that, far from an anodyne statement on unity, they could expect a tirade of dangerous denunciation.

They were President Carnot of France in 1894, Premier Canovas of Spain in 1897, Empress Elizabeth of Austria in 1898, King Humbert of Italy in 1900, President McKinley of the United States in 1901, and another Premier of Spain, Canalejas, in 1912.

Almost immediately petitions for pardon began to assail President Sadi Carnot, including one from a group of sixty deputies led by Abbe Lemire, who had been one of those wounded by the bomb.

Like Caserio, the simple assassin of President Carnot, he was of the type of regicide who becomes obsessed by the delusion that it is his mission to kill the sovereign.

Jules Favre, Carnot, Michel, and myself, at a large table, lighted by two candles, and placed before the fire.

This Committee of Permanency was composed of four members, who were Carnot, Michel de Bourges, Jules Favre, and myself.

In the room there was a sound of confused talking the members of the Committee, Madier de Montjau, Jules Favre, and Carnot, withdrew, and sent word to me by Charamaule that they were going to No.

Rue Villedo, the maid-servant who opened the door to me ushered me into a room where were Carnot, Michel de Bourges, Jules Favre, and the master of the house, our former colleague, Constituent Leblond.

We were sitting in permanence, Carnot, Jules Favre, Michel de Bourges, and myself.

Jules Favre and Carnot were writing, the one at a table near the window, the other at a high desk.

The decree, the preamble of which Carnot insisted upon writing from my dictation, was drawn up in these terms.

Rue Fontaine Moliere, but leisurely, and two by two, Madier de Montjau with Versigny, Michel de Bourges with Carnot, myself arm-in-arm with Jules Favre.

In the secret sittings of the Committee Madier de Montjau, that firm and generous heart, De Flotte, brave and thoughtful, a fighting philosopher of the Devolution, Carnot, accurate, cold, tranquil, immovable, Jules Favre, eloquent, courageous, admirable through his simplicity and his strength, inexhaustible in resources as in sarcasms, doubled, by combining them, the diverse powers of their minds.