Condorcet, Jean-Antoine-Nicolas De Caritat De 1743-1794
Archival location guide — where this economist’s surviving papers are held, their notable correspondents, and key published sources.
Born 1743 · died 1794
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 the Jacobin faction in particular – voted to have Condorcet arrested. He died in prison after a period of hiding from the French Revolutionary authorities.
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Where the papers are held
The surviving papers of Condorcet, Jean-Antoine-Nicolas De Caritat De 1743-1794 are held at Departmental archives of Yvelines.
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