Famous Offspring
- His son Sadi Carnot was a founder of the field of thermodynamics and the theory of heat engines (see Carnot cycle).
- His second son Lazare Hippolyte Carnot was a French statesman.
- His grandson Marie François Sadi Carnot (son of Hippolyte) was President of the French Republic from 1887 until his assassination in 1894 .
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“Celebrity distorts democracy by giving the rich, beautiful, and famous more authority than they deserve.”
—Maureen Dowd, U.S. journalist. The New York Times, “Giant Puppet Show,” (September 10, 1995)
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