Editing Marquis de Condorcet (section)

===Arrest and death===
[[Image:Condorcet - Esquisse d'un tableau historique des progres de l'esprit humain, 1795 - 1260508.jpeg|thumb|upright|The most famous work by de Condorcet, ''[[Sketch for a Historical Picture of the Progress of the Human Mind|Esquisse d'un tableau historique des progres de l'esprit humain]]'', 1795.<ref name="Vottari2003">{{cite book|last=Vottari|first=Giuseppe|title=L'illuminismo. Un percorso alfabetico nell'età delle riforme|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gZrQxnfsZE0C&pg=PA54|year=2003|publisher=Alpha Test|isbn=978-8848304566|page=54}}</ref> With this posthumous book the development of the [[Age of Enlightenment]] is considered generally ended.<ref name="Maddaloni2011">{{cite book|last=Maddaloni|first=Domenico|title=Visioni in movimento. Teorie dell'evoluzione e scienze sociali dall'Illuminismo a oggi: Teorie dell'evoluzione e scienze sociali dall'Illuminismo a oggi|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jFtcZsJ-8pIC&pg=PA20|year=2011|publisher=FrancoAngeli|isbn=978-8856871159|page=20}}</ref>]]

[[File:Pantheon paris.jpg|right|thumb|Condorcet was symbolically interred in the [[Panthéon, Paris|Panthéon]] (pictured) in 1989.]]
The warrant forced Condorcet into hiding. He hid for some months in the house of Mme. Vernet in Paris, where he wrote ''Esquisse d'un tableau historique des progrès de l'esprit humain'' (''[[Sketch for a Historical Picture of the Progress of the Human Mind]]''), which was published posthumously in 1795 and is considered one of the major texts of the Enlightenment and of historical thought. It narrates the history of civilization as one of progress in the sciences, claims an intimate connection between [[scientific progress]] and the development of human rights and justice, and outlines the features of a future rational society entirely shaped by scientific knowledge.<ref>{{cite book|last=Loptson|first=Peter|title=Readings on Human Nature|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6bGOKpFOY7kC&pg=PA125|year=1998|publisher=[[Broadview Press]]|pages=125–128|isbn=978-1551111568}}</ref>

On 25 March 1794 Condorcet, convinced he was no longer safe, left his hideout and attempted to flee Paris. He went to seek refuge at the house of [[Jean-Baptiste-Antoine Suard|Jean-Baptiste Suard]], a friend of his with whom he had resided in 1772,<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Salmon|first=J.H.M|year=1977|title=Turgot and Condorcet. Progress, Reform and Revolution|journal=History Today|volume=27|page=288|via=Florida International University}}</ref> but he was refused on the basis that he would be betrayed by one of their residents. Two days later, he was arrested in [[Clamart]] and imprisoned in [[Bourg-la-Reine]] (or, as it was known during the Revolution, ''Bourg-l'Égalité'', "Equality Borough" rather than "Queen's Borough") where, after another two days, he was found dead in his cell. The most widely accepted theory is that his friend [[Pierre Jean George Cabanis]] gave him a poison which he eventually used. However, some historians believe that he may have been murdered (perhaps because he was too loved and respected to be executed). Jean-Pierre Brancourt (in his work ''L'élite, la mort et la révolution'') claims that Condorcet was killed with a mixture of ''[[Datura stramonium]]'' and opium.

Condorcet was symbolically interred in the [[Panthéon, Paris|Panthéon]] in 1989, in honour of the bicentennial of the French Revolution and Condorcet's role as a central figure in the Enlightenment. His coffin, however, was empty as his remains, originally interred in the common cemetery of [[Bourg-la-Reine]], were lost during the nineteenth century.