Family tree of Lazare Hippolyte CARNOT

French Deputy, Senator, Constitutional Council member

French Born Lazare Hippolyte CARNOT

French statesman

Born on April 06, 1801 in Saint-Omer, France , France

Died on March 16, 1888 in Paris, France

Born on april 06 51

Deceased on march 16 40

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CARNOT

Jean Baptiste

- 1735

MOREAU

Anne

- 1730

CARNOT

Claude Abraham Jean Jacques

- 1797

POTHIER

Marguerite

- 1788

DUPONT de MORINGHEM

Jacques Antoine Léonard

- 1808

SEVAULT

Françoise

- 1807

CARNOT

Lazare Nicolas Marguerite Dit "Le" Grand Carnot

1753 - 1823

DUPONT de MORINGHEM

Sophie Marie Jacqueline Joséphe

- 1813

CARNOT

Hippolyte Lazare

1801 - 1888

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Lazare was the younger brother of the founder of thermodynamics Sadi Carnot and second son of the revolutionary politician Lazare Nicolas Marguerite Carnot, who also served in the government of Napoleon. He was born at Saint-Omer, Pas-de-Calais. After the final defeat of Napoleon in 1815, his father went into exile. Hippolyte Carnot lived at first in exile with his father, returning to France only in 1823. Unable to enter active political life, he turned to literature and philosophy, publishing in 1828 a collection of Chants helléniens translated from the German of Wilhelm Müller, and in 1830 an Exposé de la doctrine Saint-Simonienne, and collaborating in the Saint-Simonian journal Le Producteur. He paid several visits to Britain and travelled in other countries of Europe.

In March 1839 after the dissolution of the chamber by Louis Philippe, he was elected deputy for Paris (re-elected in 1842 and in 1846), and sat in the group of the Radical Left, being one of the leaders of the party hostile to Louis Philippe. On February 24, 1848 he pronounced in favour of the republic. Alphonse de Lamartine chose him as minister of education in the provisional government, and Carnot set to work to organize the primary school systems, proposing a law for obligatory and free primary instruction, and another for the secondary education of girls. He opposed purely secular schools, holding that "the minister and the schoolmaster are the two columns on which rests the edifice of the republic." By this attitude he alienated both the Right and the Republicans of the Extreme Left, and was forced to resign on July 5, 1848. He was one of those who protested against the coup d'état of December 2, 1851, but was not proscribed by Louis Napoleon. He refused to sit in the Corps Législatif until 1864, in order not to have to take the oath to the emperor.

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