39 - CONDORCET (Jean-Antoine-Nicolas Caritat de). Speech delivered to the National Assembly […] on behalf of the Academy of Sciences, at the session of June 12, 1790. [Paris], Baudouin, [1790]. In-8, 4 pp. in folio.

CONDORCET (Jean-Antoine-Nicolas Caritat de). Speech delivered to the National Assembly […] on behalf of the Academy of Sciences, at the session of June 12, 1790. [Paris], Baudouin, [1790]. In-8, 4 pp. in folio. First edition of this speech delivered by Condorcet before the National Constituent Assembly on June 12, 1790, on behalf of the Royal Academy of Sciences, of which he was the permanent secretary. In it, Condorcet defends the public utility of the sciences and their contribution to the progress of society, noting in particular the Academy’s work on the standardization of weights and measures. Also included, by the same author: Exposition of the Reasons on the Basis of Which the National Assembly Proclaimed the Convening of a National Convention and Declared the Suspension of the King’s Executive Power. Paris, Imprimerie nationale, 1792. In-8, 17 pp., paperback, without cover. First edition of this important declaration by the Legislative Assembly, attributed to Condorcet, justifying the suspension of Louis XVI and the convening of a National Convention following the insurrection of August 10, 1792. Drafted in the days following the storming of the Tuileries, this text sets forth the political and constitutional grounds that led the Assembly to suspend the exercise of executive power and to convene a new assembly charged with deciding the fate of the monarchy. It is one of the major official documents of the revolutionary upheaval of August 1792, which would lead, a few weeks later, to the abolition of the monarchy and the proclamation of the Republic.