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 wrote the Sketch while hiding from the extremist wing of the French Revolution.
From Nature • Dec. 12, 2019
Thus the great French philosopher Condorcet in 1793 proposed creating a new, indirect form of self-rule, linking local assemblies to a national government.
From The Guardian • Oct. 11, 2018
Whereas the Port-Royalists had suppressed to placate the Jesuits, Condorcet suppressed to please the “philosophers.”
From French Classics by Wilkinson, William Cleaver
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