CONDORCET Jean-Antoine-Nicolas Caritat, marquis de (1743-1794) mathématicien, philosophe et économiste ;

deputy, conventionnel (Aisne), he was arrested as a Girondin and poisoned himself. L.A. and L.A.S. "Condorcet", [March 1792], to Jacques-Pierre BRISSOT, "deputy at the national assembly; 1 page and a quarter, and 1 page in-8, addresses (slight browning due to the stamp, small marginal worm gallery at the 1st). Interesting political letters, worrying about the vacancies in the ministries, while the Fatherland is threatened. The letters are addressed to Jacques Pierre BRISSOT, known as Brissot de Warville (1754-1793), journalist and politician, deputy in the National Assembly and leader of the Girondins. Condorcet is worried about the vacancy of the recently repudiated ministers (Narbonne, in War and Lessart, in Foreign Affairs). Indeed, Austria threatens the revolutionaries with an armed intervention intended to come to the aid of the French monarchy. Condorcet also refers to the emigrants gathered in Coblence who formed a counter-revolutionary army. He cites Louis, comte de Narbonne-Lara (1755-1813), Minister of War from December 7, 1791 to March 9, 1792; a convinced monarchist, he fled after the events of August 10, 1792. François-Xavier-Marc-Antoine, abbé de Montesquiou (1756-1832), elected to the States General by the Parisian clergy, he opposed the reforms, and emigrated to England after the events of August 10. Anne-Pierre, marquis de Montesquiou (1739-1796), general in chief of the armies of the South and the Alps since April 1792, emigrated to Switzerland in November 1792. Claude-Antoine-Nicolas Waldec de Lessart (1741-1792), Minister of Foreign Affairs since 1791, he was accused of treason by the Girondins because he was hostile to the declaration of war against Austria (1792). "It was the abbot Montesquiou who had Narbonne dismissed, and led the intrigue with the King with the new minister. It is said that the intention of the non-elected representative is not to appoint a minister of foreign affairs until Lessart is judged. If this were true I would see no legal remedy but art. XVIII of the section of the regency but as this remedy requires a lot of time, would it not be the case of a deputation to the King to invite him to complete his ministry"... He evokes some of the arguments to be advanced and points out that it is the brother of the abbot of Montesquiou who commands in the South... Narbonne prefers that they meet at Condorcet's; they will be calmer there. "You know that the emigrants leave Coblentz, and that the emperor had the bailiff of Eternheim notified that he should not count on him if he continued to suffer from the gatherings...