Lazare Nicholas Marguerite Carnot Biography and Timeline

Birth of Lazare Nicholas Marguerite Carot

Birth of Lazare Nicholas Marguerite Carot, Nolay in Burgundy, son of a lawyer

Captain

Appointed Captain of Engineers

Citadel Demolition Proposal

Carnot proposed demolishing internal citadels, arguing that fortresses could become instruments of tyranny against a free people.

Role range: 1789-1792

Military Committee

Carnot joined the Legislative Assembly's military committee and became influential in questions of army organization.

Role range: 1789-1792

Military Discipline Debate

Carnot challenged a model of absolute passive obedience and argued for reasoned military obedience away from the battlefield.

Role range: 1789-1792

Deputy

Appointed Member of Legislative Assembly for the Pas de Calais

Role range: 1789-1792

Deputy

Lazare Nicholas Marguerite Carnot was appointed Member of Legislative Assembly for the Pas de Calais.

Role range: 1789-1792

Camp of Chalons Commission

Carnot was appointed a commissioner to help organize the camp at Chalons during the growing military emergency.

Role range: 1789-1792

Purge

Lazare Nicholas Marguerite Carnot was sent to inspect the Army of the Rhine and to purge the Army.

Role range: 1789-1792

Purge

Sent to inspect the Army of the Rhine & to purge the Army

Role range: 1789-1792

National Guard Arms

Carnot supported distributing large numbers of muskets and pikes to National Guards during the crisis of 1792.

Role range: 1789-1792

Camp of Chalons Mission

Carnot was sent to the camp at Chalons to help form a new army for national defence.

Role range: 1789-1792

Election to National Convention

Carnot was elected to the National Convention for Pas-de-Calais while engaged in military organization.

Role range: 1789-1792

Convention

Appointed Member of National Convention

Role range: 1789-1792

Convention

Lazare Nicholas Marguerite Carnot became a member of the National Convention.

Role range: 1789-1792

National Convention

Appointed Member of National Convention

Role range: 1789-1792

Pyrenees Defence Mission

Carnot was sent to organize defence on the Spanish frontier and developed plans for the Pyrenean region.

Role range: 1789-1792

Deputy

Appointed Member of National Convention

National Convention

Appointed Member of National Convention

Trial

Participates in the Convention for the trial of Louis XVI

Role range: 1789-1792

Trial

Participates in the Convention for the trial of Louis XVI.

Role range: 1789-1792

Convention of Paris

Appointed Member of Convention for Paris

Death of Lazare Nicholas Marguerite Carnot

Lazare Nicholas Marguerite Carnot voted for the immediate execution of Louis XVI.

Role range: 1793-1799

Death of Lazare Nicholas Marguerite Carnot

Votes for the immediate execution of Louis XVI

Role range: 1793-1799

Execution

Votes for the immediate execution of Louis XVI

Role range: 1793-1799

Vote on Louis XVI

Lazare Nicholas Marguerite Carnot voted for the death of Louis XVI without delay.

Role range: 1793-1799

Army of the North

Escapes an accusation of treason after the defeat of the Army of the North

Role range: 1793-1799 – 1793-1797

Treason

Escapes an accusation of treason after the defeat of the Army of the North

Role range: 1793-1799 – 1793-1797

Appointment to Committee of Public Safety

Carnot joins the Committee of Public Safety and assumes an increasingly important role in organizing the Republic's military effort.

Role range: 1789-1799

Committee of Public Safety

Appointed Member of Committee of Public Safety

Role range: 1793-1799 – 1793-1797

Committee of Public Safety

Lazare Nicholas Marguerite Carnot became a member of the Committee of Public Safety.

Role range: 1793-1799 – 1793-1797

Committee of Public Safety

Appointed Member of Committee of Public Safety

Levee en Masse

Carnot helps direct the military mobilization after the Convention orders a mass national levy to support armies facing the First Coalition.

Role range: 1789-1799

Siege of Dunkirk

Helps generals Houchard & Jourdan relieve Dunkirk

Role range: 1792-1799 – 1793-1797

Battle of Wattignies

The French raide the siege at Maubeuge as orderred by Carnot

Role range: 1792-1799 – 1793-1797

Siege of Maubeuge

The French raide the siege at Maubeuge as orderred by Carnot

Role range: 1792-1799 – 1793-1797

Director

Appointed Member of Directory

Role range: 1793-1799 – 1793-1797

Mobilization

Placed in charge of organisation & direction of the armies

Role range: 1793-1799 – 1793-1797

Reform of Armed Forces

Raises the Levee En Masse conscripting the entire male population of France, August. Creates 14 armies from untrained recruits

Role range: 1793-1799 – 1793-1797

Reform of Armed Forces

Raises the Levee En Masse conscripting the entire male population of France, August. Creates 14 armies from untrained recruits.

Role range: 1793-1799 – 1793-1797