Collection The classical authors
Marquis de Condorcet
French mathematician and philosopher, 1743-1794
Marie Jean Antoine Nicolas de Caritat, Marquis de Condorcet. He died in prison during the Terror.
Works
- Essay on the Application of Analysis to the Probability of Majority Decisions (Essai sur l'application de l'analyse à la probabilité des décisions rendues à la pluralité des voix, 1785). In which the paradox that bears his name appears.
- Five Memoirs on Public Instruction (Cinq mémoires sur l'instruction publique, 1791)
- Life of M. Turgot (Vie de M. Turgot, 1786)
- Life of Voltaire (Vie de Voltaire, 1789)
- On the Admission of Women to the Rights of Citizenship (Sur l'admission des femmes au droit de cité, 1790)
- Reflections on Negro Slavery (Réflexions sur l'esclavage des nègres, 1781). Under the pseudonym Joachim Schwartz.
- Report and Draft Decree on the General Organization of Public Instruction (Rapport et projet de décret sur l'organisation générale de l'instruction publique, 1792). Presented to the Legislative Assembly.
- Sketch for a Historical Picture of the Progress of the Human Mind (Esquisse d'un tableau historique des progrès de l'esprit humain, 1795). Written in hiding, published after the author's death.