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Lazare Carnot
1753May, 13

Lazare Carnot

Lazare Carnot, French general, mathematician, and politician, French Minister of the Interior (d. 1823)
Lazare Nicolas Marguerite, Count Carnot (13 May 1753 – 2 August 1823) was a French mathematician, physicist and politician. He was known as the "Organizer of Victory" in the French Revolutionary Wars and Napoleonic Wars.

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