Collier's new encyclopedia : a loose-leaf and self-revising reference work ..with 515 illustrations and ninety-six maps . Memoirof the Problem of Three Points ap-peared. The merit of his work gainedfor him in 1769 a seat in the Academy ofSciences, of which, after the publicationof his Eulogy on the Academicians hav-ing died before 1699 (1773), he was ap-pointed perpetual secretary (1777). In1777 his Theory of Comets gained theprize offered by the Academy of Berlin; CONDOTTIERI 102 CONE he enriched the Transactions of manylearned societies; and took an active partin the Cyclopedia. During the t
Collier's new encyclopedia : a loose-leaf and self-revising reference work ..with 515 illustrations and ninety-six maps . Memoirof the Problem of Three Points ap-peared. The merit of his work gainedfor him in 1769 a seat in the Academy ofSciences, of which, after the publicationof his Eulogy on the Academicians hav-ing died before 1699 (1773), he was ap-pointed perpetual secretary (1777). In1777 his Theory of Comets gained theprize offered by the Academy of Berlin; CONDOTTIERI 102 CONE he enriched the Transactions of manylearned societies; and took an active partin the Cyclopedia. During the troublesof the first French Revolution his sym-pathies were strongly engaged on the sideof the people. By the city of Paris hewas elected deputy to the legislative as-sembly, of which he was soon appointedsecretary, and in February, 1792, presi-dent. On the trial of Louis he was infavor of the severest sentence not capi-tal. The fall of the Girondist party, May31, 1793, prevented the constitution whichCondorcet had drawn up from being ac-cepted, and as he freely criticized theconstitution which took its place, he was. CONDOR denounced as being an accomplice ofBrissot. He was forced to hide himselffor 8 months, during which he wrote hisSketch of an Historic Tableau of theProgress of the Human Mind. Fearingthat Madame Verney, who sheltered him,would be punished for it, he fled Paris,was captured and imprisoned, and diedMarch 28, 1794, probably of poison, self-administered. CONDOTTIERI (kon-dot-yare), aclass of mercenary adventurers in the14th and 15th centuries, who commandedmilitary bands, amounting to armies, ontheir own account, and sold their servicesfor temporary engagements to sovereignprinces and states. They took no inter- est in national contests, except to receivepecuniary advantages, the v/ars betweenthem became a sort of bloodless contests,in which the only object of each partywas to take as many prisoners as possi-ble for the sake of the ransom. Only oneCondottieri at
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