Marie Jean Antoine Nicolas de Caritat, Marquis of Condorcet, known as Nicolas de Condorcet, was a French philosopher and mathematician. His ideas, including support for a 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.
Portrait of Nicolas de Condorcet (before 1794)
Jacques Turgot was Condorcet's mentor and longtime friend
Condorcet's statue by Jacques Perrin, on Quai de Conti in Paris, France
Vue de l'Hotel des Monnoies de Paris prise dans la Cour
Aisne is a French department in the Hauts-de-France region of northern France. It is named after the river Aisne. In 2020, it had a population of 529,374.
Laon, capital city of the Aisne department
The Aisne department at Laon, 2018
The Aisne river at Soissons, 2008
Laon and its cathedral, 2019
