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"19th Century Deputy For Paris" Hippolyte Carnot Hand Written Letter COA:
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Up for sale "French Statesman" Hippolyte Carnot Hand Written Letter.
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Lazare Hippolyte Carnot (6
October 1801, Saint-Omer – 16 March 1888) was a French statesman. 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. Hippolyte
Carnot was born at Saint-Omer, Pas-de-Calais. After the final defeat of Napoleon
in 1815, his father went into exile. Hippolyte Carnot lived at first in exile
with his father, returning to France only in 1823. Unable to enter active
political life, he turned to literature and philosophy,
publishing in 1828 a collection of Chants helléniens translated from the
German of Wilhelm Müller, and in 1830 an Exposé de la
doctrine Saint-Simonienne, and collaborating in the Saint-Simonian journal Le
Producteur. He paid several visits to Britain and travelled in other
countries of Europe.
In March 1839 after the dissolution
of the chamber by Louis Philippe, he was elected deputy for
Paris (re-elected in 1842 and in 1846), and sat in the group of the Radical Left, being one of the leaders of the party
hostile to Louis Philippe. On 24 February 1848 he pronounced in favour of the
republic. Alphonse de Lamartine chose him as
minister of education in the provisional government, and Carnot set to work to
organize the primary school systems, proposing a law for obligatory and free
primary instruction, and another for the secondary
education of girls. He opposed purely secular schools, holding that
"the minister and the schoolmaster are the two columns on which rests the
edifice of the republic." By this attitude he alienated both the Right and
the Republicans of the Extreme Left, and was forced to resign on 5 July 1848.
He was one of those who protested against the coup d'état of 2 December
1851 but was not proscribed by Louis
Napoleon. He refused to sit in the Corps Législatif until 1864, in
order not to have to take the oath to the emperor.From 1864 to 1869 he was in
the republican opposition, taking a very active part. He was defeated at the
election of 1869. On 8 February 1871 he was elected deputy for the joined the Gauche républicaine parliamentary group and participated
in the drawing up of the Constitutional Laws of 1875. On 16 December 1875 he
was named by the National Assembly senator for life. He died three months
after the election of his elder son, Marie François Sadi Carnot, to the
presidency of the republic. He had published Le Ministère de l'Instruction
Publique et des Cultes, depuis le 24 février jusqu'au 5 juillet 1848, Mémoires
sur Carnot par son fils (2 vols., 1861-1864), Mémoires de Barère de
Vieuzac (with David Angers, 4 vols
1842-1843). His second son, Marie Adolphe Carnot (b. 1830), became a
distinguished mining engineer and director of the École des Mines (1899), his studies in
analytical chemistry placing him in the front rank of French scientists. He was
made a member of the Academy of Sciences in 1895.
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