Marie jean antoine nicolas de caritat condorcet

View eleven larger pictures. He married Madeleine Gaudry on 12 March in Ribemont. He had been killed at the Battle of Gastalla, in Italy, on 19 September Antoine was then Madeleine's second husband but, sadly, he was killed on manoeuvres near Neuf Brisach, France, on 22 October , only five weeks after the birth of their only child Marie Jean Antoine Nicolas de Caritat, the subject of this biography.

The noble Condorcet family had undergone forced religious changes which are worth mentioning since they almost certainly had an impact on the young child. Henri de Caritat, his great-great-great-great grandfather, had adopted the Reformed faith as early as but when France turned against the Huguenots some members of the Condorcet family fled France while those was remained converted back to Roman Catholicism.

Condorcet, as we will refer to the subject of this biography, came from the branch re-converted to Catholicism and, had he followed the family tradition, he would have joined the military or the Church, the only two occupations deemed suitable to the nobility. Condorcet's mother was a deeply religious woman and she dedicated her son to the Virgin Mary and treated him in an extremely protective manner, understandable after the loss of two husbands.

Marquis de condorcet beliefs

She continued to dress Condorcet as a baby in white dresses until he was eight years old. He was kept away from others and denied the exercise and open air play that young boys would enjoy. Up to the age of eight he received some instruction from his mother but his uncle, Bishop Jacques-Marie de Caritat de Condorcet, worried that the young boy was not getting a proper education, arranged for a Jesuit tutor to teach the boy at his home from the age of nine to eleven.

In Condorcet entered the Jesuit College in Reims where he spent four years.