Marquis de Condorcet

Marquis de Condorcet was a French philosophe whose ideas and writings were said to embody the ideals of the enlightenment time period. Condorcet was appointed Inspector General of the Mint by his friend Turgot. He later shifted his focus to humanitarianism. He voted against things like the death penalty and he opposed slavery. In 1777, Condorcet was appointed the secretary of the Academy of Sciences. One of his most important works was on probability in math and the philosophy of math. He also worked on the differential and integral calculus.

During the French Revolution, Marquis de Condorcet, supported liberal causes like individual freedon. He later was selected as Secretary of the Assembly. Then, because he opposed some of his own views that were misrepresented by other Philosophes, like Marie Jean Herault de Seychelles, he was called a traitor, and was warranted for arrest. He then went into hiding, but he was arrested a few months later and died soon after in 1794.