![CONDORCET, Marie-Jean-Antoine Nicolas de Caritat, Marquis de (1743-1794). Autograph manuscript draft of an article [Sur les Protecteurs des Emigrés], n.p. [Paris], n.d. [April? 1792], including cancellations and revisions, approximately 26 pages, 4to, written in columns on thirteen leaves, blanks, bound with a portrait engraving, half red morocco by René Kieffer.](https://www.christies.com/img/LotImages/2007/CKS/2007_CKS_07411_0491_000(022251).jpg?w=1)
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CONDORCET, Marie-Jean-Antoine Nicolas de Caritat, Marquis de (1743-1794). Autograph manuscript draft of an article [Sur les Protecteurs des Emigrés], n.p. [Paris], n.d. [April? 1792], including cancellations and revisions, approximately 26 pages, 4to, written in columns on thirteen leaves, blanks, bound with a portrait engraving, half red morocco by René Kieffer.
An appraisal of recent events, attacking the alliance of France with Austria, the conduct of royal ministers and the congress of émigrés at Coblenz (October 1791), and speculating on the intentions of Prussia. 'La demande de la dispersion des emigrés devait lever le voile qui couvrait les machinations formées contre la nation ... On devait s'attendre qu'un dessein d'emploier une mediation armee pour detruire la premiere base de la constitution francaise l'égalité, allait se manifester ... l'intention perfide d'executer une guerre civile en France et de dicter à la nation des loix contraires à ses interets comme à ses droits ne pouvait se manifester plus clairement.'
Condorcet was regarded by many as the embodiment of the ideals of the Age of Enlightenment and Reason. An aristocrat who welcomed the Revolution, he studied with d'Alembert and was a friend of Turgot. In 1791 he was elected to represent Paris in the Legislative Assembly. Highly critical of the monarchy and unsympathetic to the émigrés, he joined vociferously in Brissot's attacks on royal ministers. The present manuscript is the original draft of one of the articles which he wrote for the Chronique du Mois, the short-lived mouthpiece of moderate views (K. M. Baker. Condorcet. Natural Philosopher to Social Mathematician (1975), page 465, n. 191). One of six drafts published (with minor variants) under the general title of Révision des Travaux de la Première Législature, in the Oeuvres complètes, ed. A. Condorcet O'Connor and F. Arago (1847-1849), Vol. X , pages 425-442.
An appraisal of recent events, attacking the alliance of France with Austria, the conduct of royal ministers and the congress of émigrés at Coblenz (October 1791), and speculating on the intentions of Prussia. 'La demande de la dispersion des emigrés devait lever le voile qui couvrait les machinations formées contre la nation ... On devait s'attendre qu'un dessein d'emploier une mediation armee pour detruire la premiere base de la constitution francaise l'égalité, allait se manifester ... l'intention perfide d'executer une guerre civile en France et de dicter à la nation des loix contraires à ses interets comme à ses droits ne pouvait se manifester plus clairement.'
Condorcet was regarded by many as the embodiment of the ideals of the Age of Enlightenment and Reason. An aristocrat who welcomed the Revolution, he studied with d'Alembert and was a friend of Turgot. In 1791 he was elected to represent Paris in the Legislative Assembly. Highly critical of the monarchy and unsympathetic to the émigrés, he joined vociferously in Brissot's attacks on royal ministers. The present manuscript is the original draft of one of the articles which he wrote for the Chronique du Mois, the short-lived mouthpiece of moderate views (K. M. Baker. Condorcet. Natural Philosopher to Social Mathematician (1975), page 465, n. 191). One of six drafts published (with minor variants) under the general title of Révision des Travaux de la Première Législature, in the Oeuvres complètes, ed. A. Condorcet O'Connor and F. Arago (1847-1849), Vol. X , pages 425-442.
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