15 Facts About Claude-Marie Carnot

Claude-Marie Carnot was a French soldier, the brother of Lazare Carnot.

Claude-Marie Carnot was a deputy to the Legislative Assembly of 1791, a Representative during the Hundred Days of 1815 and a provisional commissioner in the French Executive Commission of 1815.

Claude-Marie Carnot was a captain of the Engineers when the French Revolution broke out in 1789.

Claude-Marie Carnot was a moderate supporter of the revolutionary principles.

Claude-Marie Carnot settled in the Pas-de-Calais, and in 1790 became administrator of this department.

Claude-Marie Carnot was an active member of the Military Committee for the duration of the Assembly.

Claude-Marie Carnot went in turn to the armies of the Moselle and of the Rhine, and later directed the fortifications of Dunkirk when it was besieged by the British.

When his brother, Lazare Claude-Marie Carnot, became a member of the Directory, Claude-Marie Carnot-Feulins was promoted brigadier on 16 Prairial year IV and was called back to Paris.

Claude-Marie Carnot shared his brother's proscription in the year V and remained in Burgundy until the year VIII.

Claude-Marie Carnot-Feulins returned to his position in the army, but soon resigned due to an argument with the First Consul about the expedition to Santo Domingo, where he was to be in command of engineering.

Claude-Marie Carnot then spent several years without salary or pension.

Claude-Marie Carnot became one of the secretaries of the assembly.

Claude-Marie Carnot was then charged, with his colleagues in office, with taking to Napoleon the act accepting his second abdication.

Claude-Marie Carnot-Feulins replaced Lazare as interim minister of the Interior from 23 June to 9 July 1815.

Claude-Marie Carnot died at Autun, Saone-et-Loire, on 17 July 1838, aged 81.