LIFE OF SADI CARNOT. 21 



of this poor child, who lived but a few months, 

 he called the second also Sad I, in memory of the 

 celebrated Persian poet and moralist. 



Scarcely a year had passed when the proscrip- 

 tion, which included the Director, obliged him to 

 give up his life, or at least his liberty, to the con- 

 spirators of fructidor. Our mother carried her 

 son far from the palace in which violation of law 

 had just triumphed. She fled to St. Omer, with 

 her family, while her husband was exiled to Switz- 

 erland, then to Germany. 



Our mother often said to me, " Thy brother was 

 born in the midst of the cares and agitations of 

 grandeur, thou in the calm of an obscure retreat. 

 Your constitutions show this difference of origin/' 



My brother in fact was of delicate constitution. 

 He increased his strength later, by means of va- 

 ried and judicious bodily exercises. He was of 

 medium size, endowed with extreme sensibility 

 and at the same time with extreme energy, more 

 than reserved, almost rude, but singularly cou- 

 rageous on occasion. When he felt himself to be 

 contending against injustice, nothing could re- 

 strain him. The following is an anecdote in illus- 

 tration. 



The Directory had given place to the Consulate. 

 Carnot, after two years of exile, returned to his 



