The gaoler opening the door of the prison cell to find Condorcet lying on his bed, having committed suicide. Marie Jean Antoine Nicolas de Caritat, marquis de Condorcet (September 17, 1743 - March 28, 1794) was a French philosopher, mathematician, and early political scientist whose Condorcet method in voting tally selects the candidate who would beat each of the other candidates in a run-off election.

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Death of Nicolas de Condorcet

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