Marquis de Condorcet

French philosopher, mathematician, and political scientist (1743–1794)

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Lived 1743–1794, aged 51France
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    Aged 51
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Updated 2026-06-08

The philosophe who mapped Enlightenment ideals onto paper — free markets, equal rights, public schools, a safety net — then watched the Revolution eat its own. He died in a cell in 1794, hiding having failed, after the Jacobins voted him an enemy for criticizing their constitution.

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Marie Jean Antoine Nicolas de Caritat, Marquis of Condorcet, was a French mathematician, philosopher, and political economist whose work spanned the rational optimism of the Enlightenment. He argued for constitutional government, education for all, women's equality, racial justice, and welfare provisions alongside free-market principles — a sweep that later earned him the label "last witness" to that age. When revolution came, he entered politics. But in 1793 he opposed the constitution drafted by Marie-Jean Hérault de Séchelles, and the Convention Nationale, led by the Jacobins, ordered his a…

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Marquis de Condorcet
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Enjoy your life without comparing to that of others. It is enough for you to know that you are good, without examining whether others are as good as you.
Advice to his daughter (written in hiding March 1794), quoted in Lukes, S., & Urbinati, N. (Eds.). (2012). Condorcet: Political Writings
Marquis de Condorcet
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Has not printing freed the education of the people from all political and religious shackles? It would be vain for any despotism to invade all the schools ...
Sketch for a Historical Picture of the Progress of the Human Mind, 1794 (New York: The Noonday Press, 1955) p.102.
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