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Article: Condorcet, Marie-Jean Caritat, Marquis de (Full Name Marie Jean-Antoine Nicolas de Caritat; 1743–1794)
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CONDORCET, MARIE-JEAN CARITAT, MARQUIS DE (full name Marie Jean-Antoine Nicolas de Caritat; 1743
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1794)
CONDORCET, MARIE-JEAN CARITAT, MARQUIS DE
(full name Marie Jean-Antoine Nicolas de Caritat; 1743
–
1794), French Enlightenment philosopher and mathematician, and radical politician during the French Revolution. Scion of a provincial noble family (he was raised by his pious widowed mother in the Picardy region of northern France), Condorcet was arguably the most important member of the last generation of Enlightenment philosophers.
First educated by the Reims Jesuits, whose physical and psychological cruelty he detested, he nevertheless was a brilliant student. In 1758 he ...