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Marquis de Condorcet

1743 - 1794

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Marie Jean Antoine Nicolas de Caritat, Marquis of Condorcet (; French: [maʁi ʒɑ̃ ɑ̃twan nikɔla də kaʁita maʁki də kɔ̃dɔʁsɛ]; 17 September 1743 – 29 March 1794), 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, have been said to embody the ideals of the Age of Enlightenment, of which he has been called the "last witness", and Enlightenment rationalism. 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. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Marquis de Condorcet is the 176th most popular philosopher (up from 183rd in 2019), the 389th most popular biography from France (up from 414th in 2019) and the 16th most popular French Philosopher.

Marquis de Condorcet is most famous for his work on voting systems and social choice theory.

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Among PHILOSOPHERS

Among philosophers, Marquis de Condorcet ranks 176 out of 1,267. Before him are Jiddu Krishnamurti, Xun Kuang, Jakob Böhme, Thomas Reid, Mikhail Bakhtin, and Posidonius. After him are Hippias, Jean Buridan, Ram Mohan Roy, Julien Offray de La Mettrie, Carl Schmitt, and Cesare Beccaria.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1743, Marquis de Condorcet ranks 8. Before him are Antoine Lavoisier, Madame du Barry, Jean-Paul Marat, Luigi Boccherini, Alessandro Cagliostro, and Toussaint Louverture. After him are Archduchess Maria Elisabeth of Austria, Nicolai Abildgaard, Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi, Martin Heinrich Klaproth, Carl Peter Thunberg, and Prince William Henry, Duke of Gloucester and Edinburgh. Among people deceased in 1794, Marquis de Condorcet ranks 4. Before him are Maximilien Robespierre, Antoine Lavoisier, and Georges Danton. After him are Louis Antoine de Saint-Just, Cesare Beccaria, Edward Gibbon, Camille Desmoulins, Élisabeth of France, Georg Forster, Alexandre de Beauharnais, and André Chénier.

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In France

Among people born in France, Marquis de Condorcet ranks 389 out of 6,770. Before him are Henri Cartier-Bresson (1908), Fernand Braudel (1902), Marie Louise d’Orléans (1662), Dagobert I (611), François Arago (1786), and Jean Arp (1886). After him are Ève Curie (1904), Marin Mersenne (1588), Pierre Bonnard (1867), Charles Messier (1730), Jean Buridan (1295), and Maurice Leblanc (1864).

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Among PHILOSOPHERS In France

Among philosophers born in France, Marquis de Condorcet ranks 16. Before him are Jean Bodin (1530), Gilles Deleuze (1925), Henri de Saint-Simon (1760), Simone Weil (1909), Charles Fourier (1772), and Paul Ricœur (1913). After him are Jean Buridan (1295), Julien Offray de La Mettrie (1709), Maurice Merleau-Ponty (1908), Claude Adrien Helvétius (1715), Jean Baudrillard (1929), and Pierre Gassendi (1592).

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