Lazare Nicolas Marguerite Carnot

Born in 1753, died in 1823; elected to the Assembly in 1791, to the Convention in 1792; a member of the Directory in 1795, serving until 1797; a Tribune from 1802 to 1807; because of his success as War Minister from 1793 to 1795, called the “organizer of victory”; Minister of the Interior under Napoleon in 1815.