He died in prison after a period of hiding from the French Revolutionary authorities. Condorcet was born in Ribemont (in present-day Aisne), descended from the ancient family of Caritat, who took their title …

Marie-Jean-Antoine-Nicolas de Caritat, marquis de Condorcet (born September 17, 1743, Ribemont, France—died March 29, 1794, Bourg-la-Reine) was a French philosopher of the Enlightenment and …

Sep 6, 2022 · Beginning his career in the field of mathematics, Condorcet quickly became a respected intellectual, rubbing shoulders with the likes of Thomas Jefferson, Leonhard Euler, and Voltaire. He …

Condorcet occupies a special place in the history of French thought. He is the last of the 'philosophes', and the only one who took an active part in the Revolution.

Nicolas de Condorcet, known also as Marquis de Condorcet, was a French philosopher, mathematician, and early political scientist. Unlike many of his contemporaries, he advocated a liberal economy, free …

Condorcet's best-known work, the Sketch for a Historical Picture of the Progress of the Human Mind (1795), was written while he was in hiding in Paris in 1793–1794.

Condorcet was a mathematician, a philosopher, permanent secretary of the French Academy of Sciences (from 1776), and a politician during the French Revolution.

Mar 10, 2009 · Feminist, abolitionist, and, in his final years, a democratic republican, Condorcet acted in public life to expand the claims of justice, morality, and human rights.

Marie Jean Antoine Nicolas Caritat, marquis de Condorcet (September 17, 1743 - March 28, 1794) was a French philosopher, mathematician, and early political scientist who devised the concept of a …

Condorcet’s writings on the American Revolution, the Federal Constitution, and the new political culture emerging in the United States constitute milestones in the history of French political thought and of …