Condorcet
Americannoun
noun
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The Marquis de Condorcet and Jacques Pierre Brissot were Girondins who lost their lives in the Terror before the abolition of slavery, for which they had long campaigned.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 27, 2026
Gore winning any hypothetical one-on-one election would make him a so-called Condorcet candidate.
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
It is possible that some composition of his, in pursuance of the task assigned him and Condorcet, was utilized by the Committee of Public Safety in its answer to George III.
From The Life Of Thomas Paine, Vol. II. (of II) With A History of His Literary, Political and Religious Career in America France, and England by Moncure Daniel Conway
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