Marie-Jean-Antoine-Nicolas Caritat, Marquis de Condorcet

1743 - 1794

About the Author

Condorcet was a mathematician, a philosophe, permanent secretary of the French Academy of Sciences (from 1776), and a politician during the French Revolution. He was active in a number of committees which drew up legislation during the Revolution (especially on public education and constitutional reform) but became a victim of Jacobin repression when the liberal Girondin group was expelled from the Convention.

In The Library:

• author: On the Admission of Women to the Rights of Citizenship (1790)
• author: A Commentary and Review of Montesquieu’s ’Spirit of Laws’ (1811)
• author: Outlines of an historical view of the progress of the human mind (1795)
• author: Sur l’admission des femmes au droit au cité (1790)

Quotations:

• Condorcet writes about the inevitability of the spread of liberty and prosperity while he was in prison awaiting execution by the Jacobins (1796) (28 August, 2006)