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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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Marquis de Condorcet has received more than 915,624 page views. His biography is available in 52 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 49 in 2019). Marquis de Condorcet is the 183rd most popular philosopher (up from 195th in 2019), the 414th most popular biography from France (up from 437th in 2019) and the 22nd 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 183 out of 1,267. Before him are Karl Kautsky, Posidonius, Pierre Bayle, Paul Ricœur, José Ortega y Gasset, and Julien Offray de La Mettrie. After him are Apollonius of Tyana, Moses Mendelssohn, Bernard Bolzano, Ibn Tufail, Nicolas Malebranche, and Jakob Böhme.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1743, Marquis de Condorcet ranks 7. Before him are Thomas Jefferson, Antoine Lavoisier, Madame du Barry, Jean-Paul Marat, Luigi Boccherini, and Alessandro Cagliostro. After him are Archduchess Maria Elisabeth of Austria, Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi, Martin Heinrich Klaproth, Toussaint Louverture, Nicolai Abildgaard, and Carl Peter Thunberg. Among people deceased in 1794, Marquis de Condorcet ranks 7. Before him are Antoine Lavoisier, Maximilien Robespierre, Georges Danton, Louis Antoine de Saint-Just, Cesare Beccaria, and Camille Desmoulins. After him are Alexandre de Beauharnais, Edward Gibbon, Jacques Hébert, Élisabeth of France, André Chénier, and Georges Couthon.

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In France

Among people born in France, Marquis de Condorcet ranks 414 out of 6,770. Before him are Baldwin II of Jerusalem (1060), Julien Offray de La Mettrie (1709), Marcel Marceau (1923), Louis, Duke of Burgundy (1682), André Masséna (1758), and Jean Fouquet (1420). After him are Lucien Bonaparte (1775), Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin (1699), Alexis Carrel (1873), Pytheas (-380), Nicolas Malebranche (1638), and Napoléon, Prince Imperial (1856).

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Among PHILOSOPHERS In France

Among philosophers born in France, Marquis de Condorcet ranks 22. Before him are Jean Baudrillard (1929), Claude Adrien Helvétius (1715), Ernest Renan (1823), Pierre Bayle (1647), Paul Ricœur (1913), and Julien Offray de La Mettrie (1709). After him are Nicolas Malebranche (1638), Pierre Gassendi (1592), Maurice Merleau-Ponty (1908), Étienne Bonnot de Condillac (1714), Pierre Teilhard de Chardin (1881), and Jean-François Lyotard (1924).

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