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

1743–1794

Nationality: French

Historical Period: The 18th Century

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.

• Author: On the Admission of Women to the Rights of Citizenship
• Author: BOLL 50: Condorcet and Olympe de Gouges, “The Rights of Women” (1790-91)
• Author: BOLL 52: Condorcet, “Tenth Epoch. Future Progress of Mankind” (1794)
• 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