Lazare CARNOT (1753-1823) mathematician and politician; Conventional (Pas-de-Calais), member of the Comité de Salut public, organizer of the Victory of the Armies of the Republic. L.S., 26 Germinal VIII (16 April 1800), to Cen Villemanzy "Inspector General at the Rivers"; 1 page folio, vignette and letterhead The Minister of War (stain on one edge). He authorizes "Citizens Baudon and Billecard-Wall, student commissioners of war, to serve with you as deputies. He will propose them incessantly to the Ist Consul "to the places of assistant to the commissioners of wars; they can, in the meantime, fill the functions and receive the appointements of it"...