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Lazare Nicolas Marguerite
[la-zar nee-kaw-lah mar-guh-reet] /laˈzar ni kɔˈlɑ mar gəˈrit/ (Show IPA), 1753–1823, French general and statesman.
(Marie François) Sadi
[muh-ree fran-swah sad-ee;; French ma-ree frahn-swa sa-dee] /məˈri frænˈswɑ ˈsæd i;; French maˈri frɑ̃ˈswa saˈdi/ (Show IPA), 1837–94, French statesman: president of the Republic 1887–94.
Nicolas Léonard Sadi
[nik-uh-luh s len-erd sad-ee;; French nee-kaw-lah ley-aw-nar sa-dee] /ˈnɪk ə ləs ˈlɛn ərd ˈsæd i;; French ni kɔˈlɑ leɪ ɔˈnar saˈdi/ (Show IPA), 1796–1832, French physicist: pioneer in the field of thermodynamics.
Historical Examples

Fortunately for France, Carnot was temporarily retained to control the department of war.
The Life of Napoleon Bonaparte William Milligan Sloane

Carnot had in the meantime come to the assistance of the Committee of Safety.
The Life of Napoleon Bonaparte William Milligan Sloane

This result had previously been deduced theoretically by Carnot .
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 2 Various

It was Carnot who organized, clothed, fed, and drilled them.
The Life of Napoleon Bonaparte William Milligan Sloane

Carnot owed his success to two things—arbitrary control over promotion, and the cheapness of French lives.
Lectures on the French Revolution John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton

What is Carnot to us or we to Carnot, that we should weep for him?
British Socialism J. Ellis Barker

He therefore could not appeal to the nation, as Carnot did in France.
William Pitt and the Great War John Holland Rose

Carnot had told Bonaparte the truth concerning the state of the army in Italy.
The Empress Josephine Louise Muhlbach

Although the standard of political Assassination of president Carnot.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 7 Various

No. 17, dating from about 1670, was the house of the Carnot family.
Historic Paris Jetta S. Wolff

noun
Lazare (Nicolas Marguerite) (lazar), known as the Organizer of Victory. 1753–1823, French military engineer and administrator: organized the French Revolutionary army (1793–95)
Nicolas Léonard Sadi (nikɔlɑ leɔnar sadi). 1796–1832, French physicist, whose work formed the basis for the second law of thermodynamics, enunciated in 1850; author of Réflexions sur la puissance motrice du feu (1824).
Carnot
(kär-nō’)
French physicist and engineer who founded the science of thermodynamics. He was the first to analyze the working cycle and efficiency of the steam engine according to scientific principles. Through his experiments Carnot developed what would become the second law of thermodynamics and laid the foundation for work by Kelvin, Joule, and others.