Condorcet : : Writings on the United States / / ed. by Guillaume Ansart.

Condorcet (1743-1794) was the last of the great eighteenth-century French philosophes and one of the most fervent américanistes of his time. A friend of Franklin, Jefferson, and Paine and a member of the American Philosophical Society, he was well informed and enthusiastic about the American Revolut...

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Place / Publishing House:University Park, PA : : Penn State University Press, , [2021]
©2012
Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (160 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Translator's note and acknowledgments
  • Introduction: Condorcet and America
  • Influence of the American Revolution on Europe (1786)
  • Supplement to Filippo Mazzei's Researches on the United States (1788)
  • Ideas on Despotism: For the Benefit of Those Who Pronounce This Word Without Understanding It (1789)
  • Eulogy of Franklin: Read at the Public Session of the Academy of Sciences, November 13, 1790 (1790)
  • Appendix: Notes to the French Translation of John Stevens's Observations on Government (1789)
  • Chronology
  • Notes
  • Selected Bibliography in English
  • Index of Proper Names