Condorcet
Americannoun
noun
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In 1989, during the French revolutionary bicentennial celebrations, Condorcet was symbolically interred in the Panthéon, but Brissot, who advocated the export of the revolution to other nations by force, remains a less-celebrated figure.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 27, 2026
Unlike instant runoff and Condorcet methods, plurality is not actually a ranked choice voting scheme.
From Scientific American • Nov. 2, 2023
Condorcet had a brilliant and far-ranging mind; his early work included the pioneering Essay on the Application of Analysis to the Probability of Majority Decisions, in 1785.
From Nature • Dec. 12, 2019
The convention enabled Condorcet to draft the world’s first democratic constitution.
From The Guardian • Oct. 11, 2018
About 1772 he made a journey to Paris, where he formed the acquaintance of Condorcet, Diderot, d’Alembert, Rousseau and most of the other eminent Frenchmen of the day.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 1 "Evangelical Church Conference" to "Fairbairn, Sir William" by Various
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