Contents
Translator’s Note and Acknowledgments
Introduction: Condorcet and America
Influence of the American Revolution on Europe (1786)
Introduction
Chapter One: Influence of the American Revolution on the Opinions and Legislation of Europe
Chapter Two: On the Benefits of the American Revolution with Respect to the Preservation of Peace in Europe
Chapter Three: Benefits of the American Revolution with Respect to the Perfectibility of the Human Race
Chapter Four: On the Good That the American Revolution Can Do, Through Trade, to Europe and to France in Particular
Conclusion
Supplement to Filippo Mazzei’s Researches on the United States (1788)
Ideas on Despotism: For the Benefit of Those Who Pronounce This Word Without Understanding It (1789)
Eulogy of Franklin: Read at the Public Session of the Academy of Sciences, November 13, 1790 (1790)
Appendix: Notes to the French Translation of John Stevens’s Observations on Government (1789)
Chronology
Notes
Selected Bibliography in English
Index of Proper Names
Guillaume Ansart is Associate Professor of French Literature at Indiana University, Bloomington, USA.
“The volume is a vital, genuinely original contribution to the
literature on Condorcet's political thought—and how he applied his
general views on republicanism and constitutionalism to the case of
the United States—as well as on early European responses to
American constitutional development.”—Eileen Botting, University of
Notre Dame
“This excellent book offers easy access to the thinking of an
important French philosophe, Condorcet, on the early days of the
United States. With this collection, the reader can better
understand how the American Revolution was viewed in Europe in the
eighteenth century; how Franklin came to represent the perfect
universal philosophe while remaining distinctively American; and
how critical analyses of the American Constitution could have
partly shaped some of the principles in its various French
counterparts.”—Laurence Mall, University of Illinois at
Urbana-Champaign
“The marquis de Condorcet is one of those highly influential
political thinkers whose work has too often, over time, been
winnowed down to just one work, his famous outline on the progress
of the human spirit. In that sense, just calling attention to a
body of his other writings is a useful service. Guillaume Ansart
has happily brought to light here a number of Condorcet's writings
on the implications of the American experience that have heretofore
been difficult or impossible to find in English. An informative
introduction and extensive notes situate the texts most helpfully
in relation to other writings of the period, notably the widely
read History of the East and West Indies.”—Philip Stewart, Duke
University
“Scholars and aficianados of the early national period of U.S.
history who have been fascinated by the commentaries of
Crèvecoeur’s Letters from an American Farmer . . . and de
Tocqueville’s Democracy in America should take note of Guillame
Ansart’s addition to this significant genre of interpretations of
the American Revolution and the subsequent fledgling republic.
Condorcet: Writings on the United States adds another significant
dimension to the discussion, despite the fact that this ‘last’ of
the philosophes never visited the New World. . . . We should all
thank Guillaume Ansart for compiling this anthology.”—Thomas C.
Sosnowski H-France Review
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