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Work by the French philosopher and mathematician Marquis de Condorcet, written in 1794 while in hiding during the French Revolution and published posthumously in 1795.

- Sketch for a Historical Picture of the Progress of the Human Mind

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Title page of the original edition of 1798

An Essay on the Principle of Population

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First published anonymously in 1798, but the author was soon identified as Thomas Robert Malthus.

First published anonymously in 1798, but the author was soon identified as Thomas Robert Malthus.

Title page of the original edition of 1798
Part of Thomas Malthus's table of population growth in England 1780–1810, from his An Essay on the Principle of Population, 6th edition, 1826

The Marquis de Condorcet had published his utopian vision of social progress and the perfectibility of man Esquisse d'un Tableau Historique des Progres de l'Espirit Humain (Sketch for a Historical Picture of the Progress of the Human Mind) in 1794.

Portrait of Marquis of Condorcet by Jean-Baptist Greuze

Marquis de Condorcet

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French philosopher and mathematician.

French philosopher and mathematician.

Portrait of Marquis of Condorcet by Jean-Baptist Greuze
Jacques Turgot was Condorcet's mentor and longtime friend
The most famous work by de Condorcet, Esquisse d'un tableau historique des progres de l'esprit humain, 1795. With this posthumous book the development of the Age of Enlightenment is considered generally ended.
Condorcet was symbolically interred in the Panthéon (pictured) in 1989.

In 1795, Condorcet's book Sketch for a Historical Picture of the Progress of the Human Mind was published after his death by his wife Sophie de Grouchy.