Hippolyte Carnot

1801 - 1888

country of citizenship: France

native language: French

languages spoken, written or signed: French

occupation: politician, historian, translator

position held: irremovable senator, Minister of Education and Religious Affairs, Member of the Chamber of Deputies, Member of the 1848 Constituent Assembly, Deputy of the French Second Republic, Deputy of the Corps législatif, député à l'Assemblée nationale

Lazare Hippolyte Carnot (6 October 1801, Saint-Omer – 16 March 1888) was a French politician. He was the younger brother of the founder of thermodynamics Sadi Carnot and the second son of the revolutionary politician and general Lazare Nicolas Marguerite Carnot, who also served in the government of Napoleon, as well as the father of French president Marie François Sadi Carnot. Source: Wikipedia (en)