Nicolas de Condorcet

Overview

Nicolas de Condorcet was an Enlightenment thinker and revolutionary politician presented by the episode as a notable male supporter of women’s suffrage.

Current Profile

The episode places Condorcet inside a minority current willing to extend revolutionary political rights to women. It connects his position to Olympe de Gouges and his wife Sophie de Grouchy, while using his puzzlement at women’s admiration for anti-suffrage leaders to expose the limits of a purely interest-based model of political identification.

Key Characteristics

• He supported female suffrage.
• He belonged to a more female-inclusive Girondin intellectual milieu in the episode’s account.
• His position is linked to de Gouges and de Grouchy without being reduced solely to their influence.
• He was puzzled that women could admire Robespierre despite his opposition to their suffrage.

Evidence

Suffrage position

• 545. The French Revolution: The First Feminist (Part 2) identifies Condorcet as a supporter of women’s voting rights.

Intellectual and salon context

• 545. The French Revolution: The First Feminist (Part 2) connects him to de Gouges, de Grouchy, and a salon that included women.

Qualifications

• The source does not provide a complete account of Condorcet’s political philosophy or revolutionary career.
• The influence attributed to de Gouges and de Grouchy is suggestive and source-scoped, not a complete causal explanation of his views.
• His reaction to women who admired Robespierre does not establish what most women believed.

What Changed

• Created the profile around Condorcet’s pro-suffrage position and its revolutionary intellectual context.

Relationships

• Sophie de Grouchy - wife and salon organizer connected to his female-inclusive political milieu.
• Olympe de Gouges - rights advocate associated with the episode’s pro-suffrage current.
• Girondins / 吉伦特派 - relatively receptive factional setting in the episode’s comparison.
• Gendered Republican Citizenship - exclusion his suffrage position opposed.