person
Marie François Sadi Carnot
Sadi Carnot
also: Сади Карно
French statesman (1837-1894), a leading Third Republic politician about to become President of France; invoked by Chekhov in mock-grandiose hyperbole, paired with Freycinet in an absurd chain of imagined diplomatic consequence over a lost pair of trousers.
Reading notes
- To L. N. Trefolev, 14 April 1888. Moscow. §6 Sadi Carnot
Marie François Sadi Carnot (1837-1894), at this time a prominent French statesman soon to become President of France; paired with Freycinet in the same absurd chain of imagined international consequence.