Condorcet : writings on the United States

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Label

Condorcet : writings on the United States

Title remainder

writings on the United States

Statement of responsibility

translated, edited, and with an introduction by Guillaume Ansart

Creator

• Condorcet, Jean-Antoine-Nicolas de Caritat, marquis de, 1743-1794

Contributor

• Ansart, Guillaume, 1960-

Subject

• 1775-1783
• Constitutional history
• Constitutional history -- United States -- Early works to 1800
• Early works
• Electronic books
• Government - U.S
• HISTORY -- United States -- Revolutionary Period (1775-1800)
• History
• Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
• LITERARY COLLECTIONS -- Essays
• Political Institutions & Public Administration - U.S., General
• Politics and government
• United States
• United States -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783 -- Influence -- Early works to 1800
• United States -- Politics and government -- 1775-1783 -- Early works to 1800
• Law, Politics & Government

Genre

• Early works
• Early works to 1800
• Electronic books
• History

Language

• eng
• fre
• eng

Summary

"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."--Project Muse

Member of

• Works., Selections

Cataloging source

Nz

Dewey number

973.3/1

Index

index present

LC call number

JK116

LC item number

.C752513 2012eb

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

• dictionaries
• bibliography