Cécile Carnot

show This article may be expanded with text translated from the corresponding article in French. (March 2014) Click [show] for important translation instructions. View a machine-translated version of the French article. Machine translation like DeepL or Google Translate is a useful starting point for translations, but translators must revise errors as necessary and confirm that the translation is accurate, rather than simply copy-pasting machine-translated text into the English Wikipedia. Consider adding a topic to this template: there are already 4,174 articles in the main category, and specifying|topic= will aid in categorization. Do not translate text that appears unreliable or low-quality. If possible, verify the text with references provided in the foreign-language article. You must provide copyright attribution in the edit summary accompanying your translation by providing an interlanguage link to the source of your translation. A model attribution edit summary Content in this edit is translated from the existing French Wikipedia article at [[:fr:Cécile Carnot]]; see its history for attribution. You should also add the template {{Translated|fr|Cécile Carnot}} to the talk page. For more guidance, see Wikipedia:Translation.

Mme. Sadi Carnot, from an 1895 publication.

Illustration of Mme. Carnot distributing gifts to poor children on Christmas Day, from an 1894 publication.

Marie Pauline Cécile Carnot née White (July 20, 1841 – September 30, 1898) was the wife of Marie François Sadi Carnot, the President of France from 1887 until his assassination in 1894.

She was born in Paris, the daughter of Charles Brook Dupont-White and Cécile Olympe Corbie. Her father was an economist. She was married to Marie François Sadi Carnot in 1863.^[1]

As wife of the president, Cécile Carnot devoted a lot of her time to representation in public and entertaining at the Presidential Palace. She hosted three balls annually and arranged garden parties at which she introduced tennis. She regarded representation as an important part in the political career for her spouse. In 1889 she introduced the annual Christmas dinner for poor children, which became a tradition ever since.^[2]

She played a political role when she negotiated with Georges Ernest Boulanger, preventing a coup. After her husband's assassination, she lived in seclusion. She had four children, a daughter Claire and three sons, Sadi, Ernest, and François.^[1] She died in 1898, aged 57 years.

Poet wrote a poem, "To Mme Sadi Carnot, On the Death of her Husband, Late President of France" (1894).^[3] A variety of rose was named in her memory.^[4]

References[]