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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.
Contents
Contents
Translator's Note and Acknowledgments
Introduction: Condorcet and America
Influence of the American Revolution on Europe (1786)
Introduction
Chapter One: Influence of the American Revolution on the Opinions and Legislation of Europe
Chapter Two: On the Benefits of the American Revolution with Respect to the Preservation of Peace in Europe
Chapter Three: Benefits of the American Revolution with Respect to the Perfectibility of the Human Race
Chapter Four: On the Good That the American Revolution Can Do, Through Trade, to Europe and to France in Particular
Conclusion
Supplement to Filippo Mazzei's Researches on the United States (1788)
Ideas on Despotism: For the Benefit of Those Who Pronounce This Word Without Understanding It (1789)
Eulogy of Franklin: Read at the Public Session of the Academy of Sciences, November 13, 1790 (1790)
Appendix: Notes to the French Translation of John Stevens's Observations on Government (1789)
Chronology
Notes
Selected Bibliography in English
Index of Proper Names
