Marie François Sadi Carnot

Marie François Sadi Carnot
5th President of the French Republic
In office 3 December 1887 – 25 June 1894
Prime Minister	Maurice Rouvier Pierre Tirard Charles Floquet Pierre Tirard Charles de Freycinet Émile Loubet Alexandre Ribot Charles Dupuy Jean Casimir-Perier Charles Dupuy
Preceded by	Jules Grévy
Succeeded by	Jean Casimir-Perier
Personal details
Born	11 August 1837 Limoges, France
Died	25 June 1894 (aged 56) Lyon, France
Political party	Opportunist Republicans

Marie François Sadi Carnot (French: [maʁi fʁɑ̃swa sadi kaʁno]; 11 August 1837 – 25 June 1894) was a French statesman and the fifth president of the Third Republic. He served as the President of France from 1887 until his assassination in 1894.

Marie was the son of the statesman Hippolyte Carnot and was born in Limoges, Haute-Vienne. His third given name Sadi was in honour of his uncle Nicolas Léonard Sadi Carnot, a pioneer in the study of thermodynamics. Like his uncle, Marie too came to be known as Sadi Carnot. He was educated as a civil engineer, and was a highly distinguished student at both the École Polytechnique and the École des Ponts et Chaussées. After his academic course, he obtained an appointment in the public service. His hereditary republicanism caused the government of national defence to entrust him in 1870 with the task of organizing resistance in the départements of the Eure, Calvados and Seine-Inférieure, and he was made prefect of Seine-Inférieure in January 1871. In the following month he was elected to the French National Assembly by the département Côte-d'Or. In August 1878 he was appointed secretary to the minister of public works. He became minister in September 1880 and again in April 1885, moving almost immediately to the ministry of finance, which post he held under both the Ferry and the Freycinet administrations until December 1886.

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