Marquis de Condorcet
French philosopher, mathematician, and political scientist (1743–1794)
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Enlightenment mathematician and philosopher who championed free markets, public education, and women's rights—then got arrested by the French Revolution for criticizing the wrong constitution and died in prison.
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Marie Jean Antoine Nicolas de Caritat, Marquis of Condorcet, known as Nicolas de Condorcet, was a French philosopher, political economist, politician, and mathematician. His ideas, including support for free markets, public education, constitutional government, and equal rights for women and people of all races, and a welfare state have been said to embody the ideals of the Age of Enlightenment, of which he has been called the "last witness", and Enlightenment rationalism. As he was a critic of the constitution proposed by Marie-Jean Hérault de Séchelles in 1793, the Convention Nationale – and…
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