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

1743–1794

Nationality: French

Historical Period: The 18th Century

Condorcet was a mathematician, a philosopher, 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.

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Quotes from Marie-Jean-Antoine-Nicolas Caritat, Marquis de Condorcet:

• Marie-Jean-Antoine-Nicolas Caritat, Marquis de Condorcet on the French Revolution versus the American Revolution
• Marie-Jean-Antoine-Nicolas Caritat, Marquis de Condorcet writes about the inevitability of the spread of liberty and prosperity while he was in prison awaiting execution by the Jacobins

Titles from Marie-Jean-Antoine-Nicolas Caritat, Marquis de Condorcet:

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