Nicolas de Condorcet

Marie Jean Antoine Nicolas de Caritat, marquis de Condorcet (Known as "Marquis de Condorcet")

Mathematician, Philosopher, Revolutionary Statesman, Author of Sketch for Human Progress

Born Sep 17, 1743

Ribemont (Aisne), France

Passed Away Mar 29, 1794 Bourg-la-Reine (near Paris), French Republic

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"There is no limit set to the perfecting of human faculties; the progress of this perfectibility is truly infinite."

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Visionary Enlightenment mathematician and philosopher who championed public education, women's voting rights, and the abolition of slavery, writing his Sketch for Human Progress while hiding from Jacobin Terror.

Biographical Record

Elected to the Académie des Sciences under the mentorship of d'Alembert, Condorcet pioneered social choice theory with the Condorcet jury theorem and Condorcet voting paradox. During the French Revolution, he was elected to the Legislative Assembly, drafting plans for free universal state education.

An uncompromising Girondin, he opposed the execution of Louis XVI. Outlawed by the Montagnards in 1793, he hid for eight months in Paris, composing his sublime Esquisse d'un tableau historique des progrès de l'esprit humain, affirming that human reason and moral perfectibility are infinite, before dying in a prison cell.

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Final Resting Place

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Bourg-la-Reine Cemetery (Later symbolically inducted into the Panthéon in 1989)
Paris, France

                         GPS: 48.8464, 2.3461                    

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