Nicolas de Condorcet

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"Our hopes as to the condition of the human species may be reduced to three points: The destruction of inequality between nations, the progress of equality in one and the same nation and lastly, the real improvement of man."

―Nicolas de Condorcet in his manuscript, 1794.

Marie Jean Antoine Nicolas de Caritat, Marquis de Condorcet (17 September 1743 – 28 March 1794), commonly known as Nicolas de Condorcet, was a French mathematician, philosopher and political scientist of the French Revolution.

Biography

Condorcet was born in 1743. An brilliant student, he entered the Royal Academy of Sciences in 1769, where he developed his own mathematical theories working on statistics and probabilities. Closely aligned with the philosophers of the Enlightenment, he believed that the radical developments of the French Revolution would allow for a better public use of reason. Founding several journals, Condorcet strongly defended the cause of women, advocating women's suffrage. In 1789, he and Pierre-Simon Laplace, Jean-Charles Borda and Antoine Lavoisier published a serialized introduction to, and defense of, the proposed metric system in the Journal de Paris.

In 1791, he was elected as a deputy of the Legislative Assembly, becoming its secretary. There, he lobbied for educational reform and aligned himself with the Girondists. Condorcet voted against the execution of King Louis XVI, making him a suspect in the eyes of many of his fellow deputies on the National Convention. As the Girondists fell out of power, he was accused of treason. On 3 October 1793, a warrant was issued for his arrest, forcing him to go into hiding for nine months in the house of Madame Vernet. There, he wrote a manuscript called Sketch for a Historical Picture of the Progress of the Human Mind, an important piece of Enlightenment philosophy.

At the same time, his rivals seized his research on the history of political progress. Condorcet asked the help of the Assassin Arno Dorian to recover his papers from his rivals. Condorcet was later imprisoned and presumably killed by Templars.

After Condercet's death, the Marquis de Sade tasked Arno to retrieve one of his manuscripts, which was placed inside the tomb of King Louis IX in Franciade.

Reference

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