Marquis de Condorcet
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"Nature binds truth, happiness, and virtue together as by an indissoluble chain." Marquis de Condorcet, French: L'espèce humaine marche d'un pas ferme et sûr dans la route de la vérité, de la vertu et du bonheur. |
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Marie Jean Antoine Nicolas de Caritat, marquis de Condorcet (17 September 1743 – 28 March 1794), known as Nicolas de Condorcet, was a French philosopher, mathematician, and early political scientist who devised the concept of a Condorcet method. Unlike many of his contemporaries, he advocated a liberal economy, free and equal public education, constitutionalism, and equal rights for women and people of all races. His ideas and writings were said to embody the ideals of the Age of Enlightenment and rationalism, and remain influential to this day. He died a mysterious death in prison after a period of being a fugitive from French Revolutionary authorities.