[11] Éloge de Franklin, iii. 422.
[12] Réflexions sur la Rév. de 1688, et sur celle du 10 Août, xii. 197.
[13] Œuv. i. 71.
[14] Ib. i. 73, 74.
[15] Œuv. i. 296.
[16] Ib. i. 78.
[17] Œuv. i. 89. Condorcet had 16 votes, and Bailly 15. ‘Jamais aucune élection,’ says La Harpe, who was all for Buffon, ‘n’avait offert ni ce nombre ni ce partage.’—Philos. du 18ième Siècle, i. 77. A full account of the election, and of Condorcet’s reception, in Grimm’s Corr. Lit. xi. 50-56.
[18] Œuv. iii. 109, 110.
[19] His wife, said to be one of the most beautiful women of her time, was twenty-three years younger than himself, and survived until 1822. Cabanis married another sister, and Marshal Grouchy was her brother. Madame Condorcet wrote nothing of her own, except some notes to a translation which she made of Adam Smith’s Theory of Moral Sentiments.
[20] Montesquieu, Raynal, and one or two other writers, had attacked slavery long before, and Condorcet published a very effective piece against it in 1781 (Réflexions sur l’Esclavage des Nègres; Œuv. vii. 63), with an epistle dedicated to the enslaved blacks. About the same time an Abolition Society was formed in France, following the example set in England.