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HISTOIRE.
CONDORCET, Jean-Antoine-Nicolas de Caritat, marquis de (1743-1794). M.A. entitled ...Sur une nouvelle secte politique qui s'élève en France..., with numerous erasures, corrections and additions and a long addition by Brissot de Warville (1754-1793). S.l.n.d. [end of 1791 ?]. 3 pp. in-4.



Very interesting draft of a political article by Condorcet (3 pp. right margin) annotated by his friend the journalist and pamphleteer, leader of the Girondins Jacques-Pierre Brissot de Warville (1 p. left margin and title). Dedicated to the sect of the "monarchists", this text was probably published in the columns of the Patriote, newspaper directed by Brissot. In a climate of suspicion, Condorcet denounces the presence in the very ranks of the National Assembly of a monarchist, even more favorable to the King than the Monarchiens and the Clermontistes. "It is singular perhaps that the national assembly having established by the Constitution a monarchic government there exists among us a monarchic party separated from the friends of the Constitution*. I am not speaking of those who regard the power of the monarch as existing not by virtue of an irrevocable transaction. I am not speaking of those who see in a monarch not a man subject, like any other agent of a national power, to the laws according to which that power is regulated, but a being fictitiously intermediate between man and God [...]. A government that maintains itself by corruption is much more convenient than a government that is perfected by enlightenment. Such is the little secret of the only enemies we really have to fear. We have disarmed tyranny, it remains for us to unmask hypocrisy, and the mask of religion is not the only one which it is necessary to finally make fall at the feet of reason". In the hand of Brissot de Warville: "We invite the readers to read attentively the reflections which follow| they are addressed to us by an enlightened philosopher who follows with attention the retrograde steps of the ass. nat. and the changes in its opinions [...]. The sect which is denounced here, and which is only one step above that of the monarchians or Clermontists, exists and is gaining strength in the Ass. [...]". Attached: [MATHEMATICS & ENGINEERING]. Set of about 300 documents: L.A.S., P.A.S., C.P.A.S., C.V.A.S., etc. addressed to Charles-Ange Laisant (1841-1920), mathematician and French deputy. Each name has several letters: E. de Richard d'Aboncourt, L. Ripert, Charles Riquier, Virginio Retali, Albert Ribaucour, Paul Redon, S. Realis, Louis Raffy, Louis Saraz, Gaston Sandoz, Giovanni Russo, J. Sadier, Louis Saltel, Emile Sageret, A. de St Germain, Roorda, Eugène Rouché, Sam Roberts, Loisel, Rivereau, Arnous de Rivière, Lescosse, Otto de Alencar Silva, Sikstel, P.-H. Schonte, Schicht, Victor Schlegel, Sauvage, Stephan Stoyanoff, Richard Suppantschitsch, David Eugène Smith, Stouff, Vessiot, Vidal, Vaulot, Vaschy, Vassiliev, Giovanni Vailati, Albert Vacquant, Charles Thiébaut, Tarry, Gomes Teixeira, Colonel Welsch, Mathieu Weill, Vintéjoux, Vitasse, J.-B. Vince, etc.

Charles-Ange Laisant (1841-1920) was a mathematician and a French republican politician, boulangiste and dreyfusard, then anarchist. He was deputy of the Loire-Inférieure and of the Seine and President of the Mathematical Society of France.