Oh--but didn't maelicia and I both send you different portraits of Carnot? I thought mine was earlier... It's easy enough to mess something like skin tone up by taking a color from a portrait, since there are often unexpected gradations in paint.

It would look pretty funny, admittedly. And he probably only grew them post-Thermidor in any case; I don't recall having seen any portraits of men with sideburns for the Year II or earlier.