Carnot took a dominant part in the development of campaign plans, which were discussed by the entire Committee.Beginning in May 1794, dissensions arose within the Committee of Public Safety between Carnot and Robespierre and Subsequently, however, Carnot’s role began to diminish. For his invaluable services he was called the "Organizer of Victory."
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Carnot is responsible for initiating the use of cross-ratios: "He was the first to introduce the cross (anharmonic) ratio of four points of a line taking account of its sign, thereby sharpening Pappus' concept.
In this way, he established the harmonic properties of the complet…
During his time on the committee, which was heavily radical, Carnot signed a total of 43 decrees and drafted 18 of them.
He quickly organized the army and helped to turn the tide of the war. From the very start Carnot demanded that the ancient tactic of line combat be abandoned, advocating instead attack by masses concentrated at decisive points; eventually his views were adopted by the entire Committee. He continued to occupy himself with directing military operations for another few months, but he soon had to defend himself against attacks by the executors of the Thermidorian coup, aimed without distinction against all former members of the Committee of Public Safety. This was from the time of the inception of the war to its ending during the bringing down of the greatest Charlatan of his time, Napoleon Bonaparte.
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It added significantly to discontent with the course of the Revolution in still Carnot met Robespierre for the first time in Arras where he was assigned for military duty and shortly after While being an active member of the Committee of Public Safety in 1794, tensions between Carnot and Robespierre began to rise massively. This work deals with projective rather than descriptive geometry.
Many of the munitions and supplies were in short supply: copper was lacking for guns so he ordered church bells seized in order to melt them down; saltpeter was lacking and he called chemistry to his aid; leather for boots was scarce so he demanded and secured new methods for tanning.
Lazare Carnot, in full Lazare-Nicolas-Marguerite Carnot, byname Organizer of Victory or The Great Carnot, French Organisateur de la Victoire or Le Grand Carnot, (born May 13, 1753, Nolay, Burgundy, France—died August 2, 1823, Magdeburg, Prussian Saxony [Germany]), French statesman, general, military engineer, and administrator in successive governments of the French Revolution.
Carnot was the eldest son of the French Revolutionary figure Lazare Carnot and was named for a medieval Persian poet and philosopher, Saʿdī of Shīrāz.
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In May 1795, when an obscure deputy demanded the arrest of all the members of the former committees and named Carnot, he was saved by another deputy who shouted, “He organized the victory.”After the coup d’état of 18 Brumaire, year VII (November 9, 1799), which brought The allied invasion of 1814 forced him out of retirement. Lazare Carnot survived and maintained his position of power through the time of the French Revolution.
After the Legislative Assembly was dissolved, Carnot was elected to the Once the problem of troop numbers had been solved, Carnot turned his administrative skills to the supplies that this massive army would need. Thus, in March 1795, in an attempt to dissociate himself from his former colleagues, he claimed that each of them was responsible only for the duty with which he was charged and that the signatures to decrees regarded as reprehensible were only a formality.
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He then proved that this ratio is invariant for the four points obtained by cutting four lines of a pencil of lines with different secants. Carnot was the son of lawyers from Burgundy, but rather than follow his father into the law the young Carnot entered the army.
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Most of them regarding military tactics and education.In 1795, Lazare appointed Napoleon Bonaparte as general in chief of the In 1812, Carnot returned to office in defense of Napoleon during the disastrous He also published essays about engineering theory.