I would like us to receive a pointer to  Yuri Tulupenko's indication for 
the Condorcet quote "Today Reason burns the innumerable volumes which 
attest the vanity of a caste. Other vestiges remain in public and private 
libraries. They must be involved in a common destruction".  I cannot 
believe that Condorcet meant the deliberate  PHYSICAL destruction of 
papers relating to the history of the noble families of  France. Might he 
not have meant the end of the ancient regime's governmental authority 
based on the genealogical papers of the aristocrats, "destructed" by the 
revolutionary rule of popular/democratic consent? 

Marcel Claessen