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Condorcet - Writings on the United States (Hardcover, New)
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Condorcet - Writings on the United States (Hardcover, New)
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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 Revolution.
Condorcet’s writings on the American Revolution, the Federal
Constitution, and the new political culture emerging in the United
States constitute milestones in the history of French political
thought and of French attitudes toward the United States. These
remarkable texts, however, have not been available in modern
editions or translations. This book presents first or new
translations of all of Condorcet’s major writings on the United
States, including an essay on the impact of the American Revolution
on Europe; a commentary on the Federal Constitution, the first such
commentary to be published in the Old World; and his Eulogy of
Franklin, in which Condorcet paints a vivid picture of his recently
deceased friend as the archetype of the new American man:
self-made, practical, talented but modest, tolerant and free of
prejudice—the embodiment of reason, common sense, and the liberal
values of the Enlightenment.
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