Prologue
Paris France, 10:35 AM, August 24, 1832
The nurse closed the door quietly behind her as she left his hospital room. She knew her patient was very sick, because for the past two days, he had been irritable and lethargic and now he was complaining of a fever and muscle cramps. His eyes looked sunken and he was constantly thirsty; yesterday, he vomited for hours. Sadi Carnot was only 36 years old, but that day he would die of cholera.
Sadi Carnot was born June 1, 1796, in the Luxembourg Palace in Paris. His father, Lazare Carnot, was one of the most powerful men in France and would eventually become Napoleon Bonaparte’s war minister. He named his son Sadi simply because he greatly admired a medieval Persian poet called Sa’di of Shiraz. ...
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